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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇻🇦 Saint Robert Southwell Priest & Martyr (✝️ 1595 Anno Domini A.D.)      Feast: 21 February The son of a wealthy family that had flip-flopped between Catholicism & Protestantism, Robert was nevertheless sent to school in Douai , France 🇫🇷 , where he encountered the Jesuits . Rejected on his 1st attempt to join them, he pressed on to Rome 🏟️ 🇮🇹 where he was accepted just before he turned 17. #Catholic https://us.magnificat.net/ https://www.wimbledoncollege.org.uk/page/?title=Saint+Robert+Southwell+SJ+%281561%2D1595%29&pid=37

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