Gerard de Baere
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. Gerard de Baere