Robert Southwell (priest)
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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.
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Robert Southwell | |
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Martyr | |
Born | c. 1561 Norfolk, England |
Died | (1595-02-21)21 February 1595 Tyburn, London, England |
Venerated in | Catholic Church |
Beatified | 15 December 1929, Rome by Pope Pius XI |
Canonized | 25 October 1970, Vatican City, by Pope Paul VI |
Feast | 21 February |
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After being arrested and imprisoned in 1592, and intermittently tortured and questioned by Richard Topcliffe, Southwell was eventually tried and convicted of high treason for his links to the Holy See. On 21 February 1595, Southwell was hanged at Tyburn. In 1970, he was canonised by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.