About Robert Chambers
Lived 1571 – 1628 (aged 56–57). Robert Chambers was an English catholic priest and translator.
Robert Chambers (1571–1628), was a Catholic priest from Yorkshire.
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. 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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Who was Robert Chambers?
English Roman Catholic priest, born 1571
When was Robert Chambers born?
Robert Chambers was born in 1571 in Yorkshire.
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Robert Chambers died in 1628 in Habsburg Netherlands.
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Robert Chambers was a catholic priest and translator.
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Robert Chambers was English.
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· DBpedia: Robert Chambers (priest)
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