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The Burning Babe
-- By Robert Southwell --
Robert Southwell was a Jesuit priest born in 1561 and ordained in 1584. His extensive studies began in 1576 and would take him from Douai in France to Paris to Rome where he completed his studies.
In 1584 Queen Elizabeth began to enact sanctions on Catholic believers and clergy. Upon his own request, Southwell was sent as a missionary to England and arrived in July of 1586. Southwell worked for 6 years before his arrest and brutal execution on February 21, 1595.
After Southwell's death his poems were published in St.Peter's Complaint with Other Poems which was printed by renowned book printers and publishers John Windet for sale by John Wolfe in Elizabethan England.
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By Patrick Fennell-- By Robert Southwell --
Robert Southwell was a Jesuit priest born in 1561 and ordained in 1584. His extensive studies began in 1576 and would take him from Douai in France to Paris to Rome where he completed his studies.
In 1584 Queen Elizabeth began to enact sanctions on Catholic believers and clergy. Upon his own request, Southwell was sent as a missionary to England and arrived in July of 1586. Southwell worked for 6 years before his arrest and brutal execution on February 21, 1595.
After Southwell's death his poems were published in St.Peter's Complaint with Other Poems which was printed by renowned book printers and publishers John Windet for sale by John Wolfe in Elizabethan England.