Robati Southwell

Robati Southwell, S.J. (Norfolk, Uingereza, 1561 hivi – Tyburn, London, 21 Februari 1595) alikuwa padri wa Kanisa Katoliki ambaye kwa sababu hiyo aliuawa na serikali ya nchi yake.

Alikuwa pia mshairi wa lugha ya Kiingereza akatunga tenzi za kidini.

Papa Pius XI alimtangaza mwenye heri tarehe 15 Desemba 1929 halafu Papa Paulo VI tarehe 25 Oktoba 1970 alimtangaza kuwa mtakatifu mfiadini pamoja na wenzake 39.

Sikukuu yake ni tarehe 21 Februari.

Maisha
Robati alikwenda kusoma Ufaransa akajiunga na Wajesuiti huko Roma, Italia, mwaka 1578. Hukohuko aliendelea na masomo ya falsafa na teolojia akapata upadirisho (1584).

Baada ya kufundisha huko miaka miwili aliomba kurudi kwao ingawa serikali ilikuwa inadhulumu Wakatoliki. Alifanya uchungaji hasa London kwa miaka sita hadi alipokamatwa na hatimaye kuuawa kwa kuchanwachanwa kikatili kuteswa kikatili kwa amri ya malkia Elizabeti I mwenyewe na kuuawa kwa kunyongwa chini ya sheria.

Tazama pia
Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

Tanbihi

Marejeo
Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, Anglia 14, fol. 80, under date 1578
Bishop Challoner. Memoirs of Missionary Priests and other Catholics of both sexes that have Suffered Death in England on Religious Accounts from the year 1577 to 1684 (Manchester, 1803) vol. I, p. 175ff.
Brown, Nancy P. Southwell, Robert [St Robert Southwell] (1561–1595),writer, Jesuit, and martyr Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Encyclopædia Britannica. Southwell, Robert. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
Janelle, Pierre. Robert Southwell, The Writer: A Study in Religious Inspiration. Mamaroneck, NY: Paul P. Appel, 1971.
Jokinen, Anniina. The Works of Robert Southwell. 9 Oct 1997. 26 Sep 2008.
"Robert Southwell (c. 1561–1595)". 2003. MasterFILE Premier
F.W.Brownlow. Robert Southwell. Twayne Publishers, 1996.
John Klause. Shakespeare, the Earl, and the Jesuit. Madison & Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008.

Marejeo mengine
Louis Martz. The Poetry of Meditation: A Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. ISBN|0-300-00165-7
Scott R. Pilarz. Robert Southwell, and the Mission of Literature, 1561–1595: Writing Reconciliation. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. ISBN|0-7546-3380-2
Robert Southwell, Hořící dítě a jiné básně, Josef Hrdlička (translat.), Refugium, Olomouc 2008.
St. Robert Southwell: Collected Poems.  Ed. Peter Davidson and Anne Sweeney. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2007. ISBN|1-85754-898-1
Ceri Sullivan, Dismembered Rhetoric. English Recusant Writing, 1580–1603. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1995. ISBN|0-8386-3577-6
Anne Sweeney, Robert Southwell. Snow in Arcadia: Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape, 1586–95. Manchester University Press, 2006. ISBN|0-7190-7418-5
George Whalley, "The Life and Martyrdom of Robert Southwell." Radio Script. 135-minute dramatic feature. CBC Radio Tuesday Night 29 June 1971. Produced by John Reeves.

Viungo vya nje
 The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
 The Poems of Robert Southwell
 Complete Poems of Robert Southwell, Grosart edition, 1872.
 The complete works of R. Southwell : with life and death (1876)
 A foure-fould meditation, of the foure last things (1895)
 The prose works of Robert Southwell. Ed. by W.J. Walter (1828)

Waliozaliwa 1561
Waliofariki 1595
Wajesuiti
Mapadri
Washairi wa Kiingereza
Wafiadini Wakatoliki
Watakatifu wa Uingereza