About Gerard de Baere
Lived 1608 – 1666 (aged 57–58). Gerard de Baere was a Belgian catholic priest.
Gerard de Baere, a native of Laarne, was the 43rd abbot of Ten Duinen Abbey in Bruges from 1653 to 1666.
Life De Baere was professed as a monk in 1631. He was ordained subdeacon on 10 April 1632, deacon on 21 May 1633, and priest on 24 September 1633. A plan to have him nominated Bishop of Bruges failed to pan out.
On 11 May 1666 he granted permission for a chapel with portable altar to be built on the former site of Oosteeklo Abbey.
He died in Bruges on 26 October 1666.
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Gerard de Baere was born in 1608 in Laarne.
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