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Canonized. 25 October 1970, Vatican City, by Pope Paul VI. Feast. 21 February. Robert Southwell, SJ (c. 1561 – 21 February 1595), also Saint Robert Southwell, was an English Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order. He was also a poet, hymnodist, and clandestine missionary in Elizabethan England .
Apr 9, 2024 · Robert Southwell (born 1561, Horsham St. Faith, Norfolk, Eng.—died March 4, 1595, London) was an English poet and martyr remembered for his saintly life as a Jesuit priest and missionary during a time of Protestant persecution and for his religious poetry.
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Robert Southwell, a poet and prose writer of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson‘s generation, spent his adolescence and early manhood in Italy. His brief literary career flourished during the years when he was an underground Jesuit priest in Protestant England. It is agreed that Southwell brought…
Robert Southwell (1561-1595), one of England's many poets but one of its most illustrious martyrs, was killed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He came from a well-to-do family but had to move to the continent to study in a Catholic school.
The Life of Robert Southwell [Biography of the Jesuit Priest and poet, Catholic martyr] ROBERT SOUTHWELL, English Jesuit and poet, son of Richard Southwell of Horsham St Faith's, Norfolk, was born in 1560/61. The Southwells were affiliated with many noble English families, and Robert's grandmother, Elizabeth Shelley, figures in the genealogy of ...
Feb 21, 2021 · Franczak: Robert Southwell (1561-1595) was a poet, a Jesuit missionary in his own country, a martyr, a saint and Shakespeare’s distant cousin (the last fact seems not to be mentioned at all or...
Feb 21, 2019 · The martyred Jesuit, St. Robert Southwell, is one of the greatest Englishmen in the whole of England’s long and checkered history. A convert to the Faith who was forced into exile in order to...
