RC
The basics
Quick facts
Intro
English Roman Catholic priest, born 1571
Gender:
Male
Work field:
Birth:
1571(Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom)
Death:
1628(Habsburg Netherlands)
Religions:
Education:
English College
English College
The details
Biography
Introduction
Robert Chambers (1571–1628), was a Catholic priest from Yorkshire.
Life
As a boy Chambers was sent to the English College in Rheims to be educated as a Catholic. In 1593 he was admitted to the English College, Rome, where he was ordained priest in 1594. From 1599 to 1623 he was confessor to the English Benedictine nuns in Brussels. He died in Flanders in 1628. He was also a writer and translator.
Works
- Palestina (Florence, 1600), an allegorical romance
- Philip Numan, Miracles lately wrought by the intercession of the Glorious Virgin Mary at Mont-aigu, nere unto Sichen in Brabant, translated out of the French (Antwerp, 1606)