Showing posts with label Saint Robert Southwell Died on this day in 1561. Show all posts
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Thursday 21 February 2019

Saint Robert Southwell


From Extraordinary Malvern:-

"On this day 21 February 1595 The death of Robert Southwell, English priest and poet (b. 1561)

Robert Southwell also Saint Robert Southwell, was an English Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order. He was also a poet and clandestine missionary in post-Reformation England.

After being arrested and imprisoned in 1592, and intermittently tortured and questioned by Richard Topcliffe, Southwell eventually was tried and convicted of high treason for his links to the Holy See. On 21 February 1595, Father Southwell was hanged at Tyburn. In 1970, he was canonised by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

Saint Robert Southwell, S.J. (1561–1595). Line engraving by Matthaus Greuter (Greuther) or Paul Maupin, published 1608.

•Here's a good article about Robert Southwell:
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/southbio.htm.

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