Christopher Robinson (priest)

Christopher Robinson (born at Woodside, near Westward, Cumberland, date unknown; executed at Carlisle, 19 August 1598) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.
==Life==
He was admitted to the English College at Reims in 1589, and was ordained priest and sent on the English mission in 1592. Two years later he was a witness of the condemnation and execution of John Boste at Durham, and wrote a graphic account.Printed from a seventeenth-century transcript in the first volume of the "Catholic Record Society's Publications" (London, 1905), pp. 85-92. His labours seem to have been mainly in Cumberland and Westmoreland; but nothing is known about them. 
Eventually he was arrested and imprisoned at Carlisle, by John May.http://matterdalematters.multiply.com/journal/item/113/Founding_of_chapelry May's successor as bishop, Henry Robinson, who may have been a relative, did his best to persuade him to save his life by conforming to the Church of England. He was condemned under 27 Eliz., c. 2, for being a Catholic priest and coming into the realm. 
==References==
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