Robert Chambers (priest)

Robert Chambers (1571–1628), was a Catholic priest from Yorkshire.[1]

Robert Chambers
Born1571
Died1628
NationalityEnglish
EducationEnglish College, Rheims
English College, Rome
Years active1594–1623
ChurchCatholic
Ordained1594
WritingsPalestina (1600)
Offices held
Confessor to the English Benedictine nuns in Brussels

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)
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References

  1. Thompson Cooper (1887). "Chambers, Robert (1571-1624?)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 21.
  2. 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.)
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