Robert Chambers (priest)
Robert Chambers | |
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Born | 1571 |
Died | 1628 |
Nationality | English |
Education | English College, Rheims English College, Rome |
Years active | 1594–1623 |
Church | Catholic |
Ordained | 1594 |
Writings | Palestina (1600) |
Offices held | Confessor to the English Benedictine nuns in Brussels |
Robert Chambers (1571–1628), was a Catholic priest from Yorkshire.[1]
Life[]
As a boy Chambers was sent to the English College in Rheims to be educated as a Catholic. In 1593 he was admitted to the English College, Rome, where he was ordained priest in 1594. From 1599 to 1623 he was confessor to the English Benedictine nuns in Brussels. He died in Flanders in 1628.[2] He was also a writer and translator.
Works[]
- Palestina (Florence, 1600), an allegorical romance
- Philip Numan, Miracles lately wrought by the intercession of the Glorious Virgin Mary at Mont-aigu, nere unto Sichen in Brabant, translated out of the French (Antwerp, 1606)
References[]
- ^ Thompson Cooper (1887). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 21.
- ^ Arblaster, Paul. "Chambers, Robert (1571–1628)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5077. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Categories:
- 1571 births
- 1628 deaths
- English College, Douai alumni
- English College, Rome alumni
- 16th-century English Roman Catholic priests
- 17th-century English Roman Catholic priests
- French–English translators
- English expatriates in France
- English expatriates in Belgium
- Kingdom of England expatriates in France