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Robert Persons
Robert Persons , 1546–1610, English Jesuit missionary. He left a fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford, and went to the Continent to be received (1575) into the Roman Catholic Church, then entered the Society of Jesus and was ordained (1578). Active in the English College at Rome, Persons probably suggested the secret Jesuit mission that was sent to England. That mission (1580–81) to reestablish Roman Catholicism in England, which he undertook with Saint Edmund Campion , was the most notable event in Persons's career. When Campion was caught, Persons fled to the Continent, where he remained the rest of his life, trying to promote Catholicism in England by political schemes and by building up in France and Spain seminaries and monasteries for English Catholics. The school he founded at Eu was later transferred to Saint-Omer, and in 1794 it moved to Lancashire, England, where it became Stonyhurst College. Persons was rector of the English College from 1597 to 1610. Of his many works the best remembered is the devotional Book of Resolution; or, The Christian Directory (1582). |
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"Robert Persons." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Robert Persons." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Persons.html "Robert Persons." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Persons.html |
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Parsons, Robert
Parsons, Robert (1546–1610), also ‘Persons’, Jesuit. He left Oxford, became a RC at Louvain, and in 1575 joined the Jesuits. Chosen with St Edmund Campion to lead the Jesuit Mission to England in 1580, he was soon (1581) forced to flee. He became a trusted counsellor of Popes and other rulers (especially Philip II of Spain). He was rector of the English College at Rome from 1597 and took part in the foundation of the English Colleges at Valladolid, Seville, and St-Omer. Though he was a skilled controversialist, the most influential of his writings was a spiritual treatise, The Christian Directory (1582).
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Parsons, Robert." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Parsons, Robert." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-ParsonsRobert.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Parsons, Robert." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-ParsonsRobert.html |
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Parsons, Robert
Parsons, Robert (1546–1610). Jesuit missionary. Born in Somerset to protestant parents, he resigned his Balliol fellowship and was received into the Roman church at Louvain, before offering himself to the Society of Jesus (1575). He was sent to England with Campion in 1580, and stayed a year in great danger. For nearly 20 years he was one of the most ardent promoters of the Spanish invasion. After failure of the Armada, he concentrated on his order's internal affairs. His missionary zeal combined with political intrigue have contributed much to the popular image of Jesuitry.
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JOHN CANNON. "Parsons, Robert." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Parsons, Robert." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-ParsonsRobert.html JOHN CANNON. "Parsons, Robert." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-ParsonsRobert.html |
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Persons, Robert
Persons, Robert. See PARSONS, ROBERT.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Persons, Robert." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Persons, Robert." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-PersonsRobert.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Persons, Robert." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-PersonsRobert.html |
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