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Nationality
  
English

Name
  
Robert Chambers

Ordained
  
1594

Church
  
Catholic

Years active
  
1594–1623


Born
  
1571
Yorkshire

Died
  
1628 Habsburg Netherlands

Education
  
English College, Rheims English College, Rome

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

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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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