biography
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Allen, William (UK)
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| lived:
| (1532–94)
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| biography:
| Clergyman, born in Rossall, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He became principal of St Mary's Hall, Oxford, but after the accession of Queen Elizabeth in 1558 he went into exile in Flanders (1561) rather than take the Oath of Supremacy. In 1568 he founded the English college at Douai to train missionary priests for the reconversion of England to Catholicism, and supervised the Reims–Douai translation of the Bible. In 1587 he was created a cardinal. |
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