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acrimonyand: — Saint Robert Southwell

jesuitnews: He was admitted into the Society of Jesus as a lay brother by Jesuit Father Henry Garnet, whom he served for many years. He also served with other famous Jesuits, including Edmund Campion and Robert Southwell.

LittleVillageHQ: Thank you St Robert Southwell Catholic Primary & Nursery School for organising a donation drive earlier this month. If you would like to donate, visit

kitsquotebot: A Catholic disciple of Robert Southwell. That's why I brought him.

bernsmusic123: A Jesuit missionary priest to Elizabethan England during a time of great persecution of the Catholic Faith, Saint Robert Southwell was renowned even during his lifetime for his spiritual writings, poetry and zeal for the Faith of our Fathers

ProtecttheFaith: "Look if you can upon a Crucifix without blushing; do but count the Five Wounds of Christ once over without a bleeding conscience. Read your sins in those characters, and examine your thoughts whether the sight do please them." St Robert Southwell SJ, martyr

kitsquotebot: A Catholic disciple of Robert Southwell. That's why I brought him.

catholicdvds: The lives and missions of the Catholics of 15th, 16th and 17th England on DVD - Faith, beauty, Truth, history in Catholic DVD available worldwide, Sts Nicholas Owen, Robert Southwell, Ralph Sherwin, Margaret Clitherow and more:

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josephs_chapel: Today We Celebrate Tuesday of week 7 in Ordinary Time or Saint Peter Damian, Bishop, Doctor Other saints: St Robert Southwell (1561 - 1595) Feria III after Quinquagesima

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PortsmouthRC: Tuesday 21st February St Peter Damian, Religious, Bishop & Doctor of the Church, optional memorial or: Feria [7th Week of Ordinary Time] [English Martyr: St Robert Southwell] Diocesan Prayer: Community of St Bernadette, Les Quennevais, Jersey (dedicated 22.2.1986)

Saintonthewing: "The saddest birds a season find to sing, The roughest storm a calm may soon allay; Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all, That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall." -St. Robert Southwell St. Robert, pray for us!

ThinkingFaith: Robert Southwell was martyred on 21 February 1595. His saintly heroism touches Luke Taylor SJ because it is so thoroughly human, incarnate, felt. The theme of his life and works is very clear – love. 

silvestromedia: Saint Robert Southwell , English Martyr, Jesuit priest, poet., Feb.

silvestromedia: St Robert Southwell

CatholicPods: Good morning, England! As you celebrate your Forty Martyrs today, give ear(s) to these great poems by St. Robert Southwell.

ThinkingFaith: A priest & martyr whose influence on literature does not get the recognition it deserves, Robert Southwell was a friend to many in his own time, and extends that hand of friendship across the centuries through his writing, says Luke Taylor SJ.

ProtecttheFaith: On this day in 1591 St Robert Southwell SJ priest, attained the crown of martyrdom at Tyburn "It seems to me that I see the beginnings of a religious life set on foot in England, of which we now sow the seeds with tears, that others hereafter may, with joy, carry in the sheaves"

crankyuncle2: OTD 1595 Robert Southwell, English Roman Catholic priest and Jesuit and poet, hung drawing, and quartered for treason at 33 (canonized 1970)

addushs_cmo: LOOK | Today we remember Saint Robert Southwell Saint Robert Southwell Pray for us, Special Prayers for the learners of Grade 11 - Southwell Poster by: Grade 11 Learners ( SY 2022 - 2023)

ThinkingFaith: 21 February is the anniversary of the death in 1595 of Jesuit martyr Robert Southwell. He is perhaps best known for his poetry, to which Brian McClorry SJ offers an introduction. How does his poetry open up a space for Ignatian conversational prayer? 

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Tpjkearns: St Robert Southwell... ora pro nobis

TempusFugit4016: "The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents... therefore wrong is their way, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing." - St. Robert Southwell

martghogan: 20th February - St Robert Southwell (1561-95) -

FinglasRCParish: 20th February - St Robert Southwell (1561-95) -

CatholicPods: Now on YouTube: James Majewski recites 3 poems by the Jesuit martyr St. Robert Southwell, whose feast in the UK is coming up on Feb 21. One is "The Burning Babe", still frequently anthologized today. The Burning Babe A Child My Choice I Die Alive

catholic_icons: “This little babe, so few days old, Is come to rifle Satan’s fold; All hell doth at his presence quake. Though he himself for cold do shake, For in this weak unarmèd wise The gates of hell he will surprise.” - “New Heaven, New War”, St Robert Southwell, SJ (1561-1595)

kitsquotebot: A Catholic disciple of Robert Southwell. That's why I brought him.

FranciscanPoet2: My "Saint" Friends Include: Francis of Assisi Thomas More Solanus Casey Clare Joseph of Cupertino Robert Southwell Joan of Arc John Bosco Therese of Lisieux

TRIXIEorTREBLE: ✖️ H: Lady Loulou J: Robert Havlin T: John & Thady Gosden 12:25 Southwell 4th ~ Unplaced

kitsquotebot: A Catholic disciple of Robert Southwell. That's why I brought him.

kitsquotebot: A Catholic disciple of Robert Southwell. That's why I brought him.

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DavidCranmerUn1: Royal Society with the support of Sir Robert Southwell, his father's friend. After informal meetings at Gresham College, the Royal Society was officially founded on 28 November 1660 when a group of academics decided to find "a College for the Promoting of Mathematicall

JanEngleLewis1: Why Jesus? “This little Babe so few days old has come to rifle Satan’s fold; all hell doth at his presence quake…” (martyr/saint Robert Southwell). This is the Jesus I follow into the new year: “If thou wilt foil thy foes with joy then flit not from this heav’nly Boy!”

paich0n: after many hours studying i've arrived to a conclusion: robert southwell was right, decease IS release

HardinCrowder: "This little babe, so few days old, has come to rifle Satan's fold... Now weak in infancy, our confidence and joy shall be, the power of Satan breaking, our peace eternal making" - Robert Southwell

JesuitsBritain: Though young, yet wise; though small, yet strong; though man, yet God He is: - St Robert Southwell SJ

kitsquotebot: A Catholic disciple of Robert Southwell. That's why I brought him.

EdwardLHamilton: Robert Southwell looks farther forward. The descent to the stable is a halfway point in a drive to the gates of hell, a sort of mid-march encampment where God declares that he's marching to cast down the fortifications of Satan.

RoseHappy4Ever: When we go to mass, all the saints in heaven are there with us. When we receive the Blessed Sacrament we walk in the company of Thomas More, Edmund Campion and Robert Southwell. And I know when we sing with all the angels, we are singing with John Gerard.

sdk14754977: Beautiful poem by St. Robert Southwell, Society of Jesus

heracletian: A poem for this day by +Robert Southwell.

geschwartz58: From Robert Southwell...

vjoshuaadams: Merry Christmas from Robert Southwell and his Baby Jesus Meteor

JohnAllenGay: “This little babe, so few days old, Is come to rifle Satan’s fold; All hell doth at his presence quake. Though he himself for cold do shake.” Robert Southwell, SJ, 1561-1595

SamBuntz: Merry Christmas! Here’s a Christmas poem by Robert Southwell, S.J., martyr:

cincinnatus_c_: Benjamin Britten's setting of this poem by Robert Southwell is probably my favourite Christmas carol--definitely my favourite to sing in choir when I was a kid--but it's so rarely heard... not sure I would've ever heard it if my school choir hadn't happened to do it

Plough: This little babe, so few days old, Is come to rifle Satan’s fold; All hell doth at his presence quake. Though he himself for cold do shake, For in this weak unarmèd wise The gates of hell he will surprise ✴️ Robert Southwell

BruleChevalier: VIRTUE: If virtue be thy guide, True comfort is thy path, And thou secure from erring steps, That lead to vengeance wrath. — Rev. Robert Southwell, S.J.

BeautyisTruthT1: A new reading for the Christmas season. Please enjoy, subscribe and share. 'The Burning Babe' by the English poet and martyr, Robert Southwell 1561...

SiouxLookoutON: Thank you to all those who helped LIGHT UP Sioux Lookout and showed off their holiday spirit. Congratulations to this years winners: 1st Place: Cam and Dominque at 5 4th Avenue Hudson. 2nd Place: Bruna Parker at 46 Robert Street. 3rd Place: Jeff Southwell at 17 King Street.

Racecourse_Side: CEANNA bolts up at Southwell under Robert Havlin.

astrotrad: “The Burning Babe” – a moving (as is this video) 16-line poem of Christmas theme, composed in 1595 by British Catholic priest/martyr Robert Southwell

caljohn83329706: "Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die." Robert Southwell. I am reminded that the most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or touched, they must be felt by the heart... Thanks Robert, for making me feel today.

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netmnp: Enjoying the coverage of Southwell on Sky Sports Racing, which, blessedly, is a Chapman-free zone this afternoon. Robert Cooper gets the chats with connections just right.

GrahameLetts: Winning the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award is like winning a 0-55 Seller at Southwell with a $5,000,000 Keenland Sales topper

Plough: "This little babe, so few days old, Is come to rifle Satan’s fold; All hell doth at his presence quake. Though he himself for cold do shake, For in this weak unarmèd wise The gates of hell he will surprise." Robert Southwell

Predmoresj: Poem: “New Prince, New Pomp” by: Robert Southwell, S.J.

yvonnesales78: Thursday the 1st of December, the feast of Sts Edmund Campion and Robert Southwell SJ. in the first week of Advent. One Hope Project sings ‘Good Work In Me’. Hebrews 11:32-12:2

ThinkingFaith: Among the Jesuit saints whom we remember on 1 December is Robert Southwell, whose saintly heroism touches Luke Taylor SJ because it is so thoroughly human, incarnate, felt. The theme of his life and works is very clear – love. 

AORjesuits: Today is the Feast of St Edmund Campion SJ, Robert Southwell SJ and companions, Martyrs. “Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights, a brief wherein all marvels summed lie, of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store, most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.”

ThinkingFaith: Robert Southwell SJ, whom we remember today, is perhaps best known for his poetry, to which Brian McClorry SJ offers an introduction here. How does Southwell’s poetry open up a space for Ignatian conversational prayer?

JesuitsBritain: Today is the feast of St Edmund Campion SJ, St Robert Southwell SJ and companions. St Edmund Campion is the patron of the British Province of the Society of Jesus. Read more about them on our website:

BryonySeries: As I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow, Surpris’d I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow; And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near, A pretty Babe all burning bright "The Burning Babe" by Robert Southwell, SJ

jdmccafferty: As Advent gets underway, here an expectant Virgin appears to Saint Simón de Rojas (British Museum) A burning babe as Robert Southwell would say...

ThinkingFaith: The clear light of an authentic holiness like that of Robert Southwell, whom we remember tomorrow, cuts through the dark fog of triumphalist accounts of early modernity. 

kitsquotebot: A Catholic disciple of Robert Southwell. That's why I brought him.

MarysDowry: "Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights, A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie, Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store, Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more." - St. Robert Southwell, Poet & One of the 40 Martyrs of England & Wales

bernsmusic123: I'm so pleased we managed to add St. Robert Southwell to our DVD collection, he is an inspiring English Martyr.

Martin_Ridgway2: The "moat" behind Robert Southwell School, filling up slowly, plus the ponds along the path pretty much filled up

kitsquotebot: A Catholic disciple of Robert Southwell. That's why I brought him.

JescomZim: He mine by gift, I by debt, thus each to other due; First friend He was, best friend He is, all times will try Him true. St Robert Southwell SJ

tapheritage: Thinking about the priest Robert Southwell & his potential connection to Thomas Tresham & his architecture. Two years ago, I wasn’t expecting to be writing about this stuff again. Discernment, virtual churches & the Return of the Repressed. Potent stuff at 2.30am.

kitsquotebot: A Catholic disciple of Robert Southwell. That's why I brought him.

kitsquotebot: A Catholic disciple of Robert Southwell. That's why I brought him.

danielmitsuiart: Drawings of saints: Petronilla, Robert of Newminster, Robert Southwell, Sebastian.

MrMindMiracle: To me the mind an empire is Robert Southwell.

UncleErniesTips: Robert Cooper calls Tony Carroll a 'real shrewdie' at Southwell. Add him to the list.

LaSalette1846: Feast of St. Philip Howard today - he is mentioned here in Saint Robert Southwell: A Brief Life -

BeineckeLibrary: Letter from Queen Elizabeth to her maid of honor, Lady Elizabeth Southwell, daughter of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, sending condolences on death of Lady Southwell's husband, Sir Robert Southwell, written from Richmond, 15 October 1598 [1599].

ThinkingFaith: A priest & martyr whose influence on literature does not get the recognition it deserves, Robert Southwell was a friend to many in his own time, and extends that hand of friendship across the centuries through his writing. 

ThinkingFaith: The clear light of an authentic holiness like that of Robert Southwell cuts through the dark fog of triumphalist accounts of early modernity. 

A_E_Knight: Ch.2, ‘Ambiguity’, considers verses that could be read in multiple, even opposite, ways. It considers England’s equivocation controversies and Robert Southwell’s Saint Peter’s Complaint, as well as Hebrew ‘double readings’ and Donne’s Lamentations of Jeremy.

last_of_england: 3/3 Inside at Morton-on-the-Hill. The memorial to Thomas Southwell, 1609 and the brass of Katherine Audley, 1611. Thy were aunt and uncle of the Jesuit martyr St Robert Southwell, I believe. Return to Morton-on-the-Hill:

enternoon: For God, on earth, she is the royal throne, The chosen cloth to make his mortal weede; The quarry to cut out our Corner-stone, Soil full of fruit, yet free from mortal seed; For heavenly flower she is the Jesse rod The child of man, the parent of a God (St Robert Southwell)

stevhep: For God, on earth, she is the royal throne, The chosen cloth to make his mortal weede; The quarry to cut out our Corner-stone, Soil full of fruit, yet free from mortal seed; For heavenly flower she is the Jesse rod The child of man, the parent of a God. ​St Robert Southwell

stevhep: I wrestle not with rage, While fury’s flame doth burn; It is in vain to stop the stream Until the tide doth turn. But when the flame is out, And ebbing wrath doth end, I turn a late enraged foe Into a quiet friend St Robert Southwell

JesuitsBritain: From death, from dark, from deafness, from despair: This life, this light, this Word, this joy repairs. - St Robert Southwell SJ

bernsmusic123: Robert Southwell was a clandestine missionary in Elizabethan England during the persecution of the Catholic Church by the government. Saint Robert ministered to many hundreds of Catholics including the wife of St. Philip Howard, the Earl of Arundel

GCoatalen: law until Sir Richard Cromwell called me to his service. I remained steward of his house till I married. Then I returned to the law and dwelt in Holborn, and was a chancery man, and wrote all manner of ordinary process of that court under Sir Robert Southwell,

KimberleyMWFC: Our reserves begin their season with a 6-2 win over Southwell City Reserves. Jordan Smith with 4 goals along with strikes from Matt Dickinson and Robert De Silva.

sacredsaints_: “Where sin was hatched, let tears now wash the nest.” ― St. Robert Southwell

everympbot: Robert Southwell (1563 - 1598) was an English MP, who represented Guildford in one parliament in 1597. * Wikipedia:

classicwarbirds: Newark MP Robert Jenrick backs calls for memorial to Photographic Reconnaissance Units that included Southwell's Michael Suckling who discovered Bismarck. ➡️

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