Feb 21 1595 Jesuit St. Robert Southwell was hanged, drawn and quartered in Tyburn. For six years he carried on a clandestine ministry in Elizabethan England before his arrest. His famous poem "The Burning Babe" describes a vision of Christ on Xmas. (Icon: William Hart McNichols)
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Not where I breath, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die; The life I wish, must future glory give, The deaths I feele in present daungers lye. --St. Robert Southwell, SJ

Feb 21, 2019 · 3:40 PM UTC
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