biography
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| lived:
| (1546–1610)
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| biography:
| Jesuit, born in Nether Stowey, Somerset, SW England, UK. He became a fellow and tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, but, because of his Catholic leanings, his enemies secured his forced retirement in 1574. He then converted to Catholicism, and in Rome entered the Society of Jesus (1575), becoming a priest in 1578. With Edmund Campion he masterminded a secret Jesuit mission in England (1580), baffled all the attempts of government to catch him, and escaped to the European mainland a year later. He then directed the Jesuit ministry from Europe until 1588, when he was sent to Spain to establish seminaries for English priests. |
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