Feast February 21
Saint Robert Southwell
Martyr · Feast February 21
Biography
Robert Southwell, SJ, also Saint Robert Southwell, was an English Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order. He was also an author of Christian poetry in Elizabethan English, and a clandestine missionary in Elizabethan England.
Feast day
February 21
Birth date
c. 1561
Death date
1595-02-21
Canonization status
Canonized
Canonization date
25 October 1970
Canonized by
Pope Paul VI
Feast month
2
Wikidata qid
Q1380904
Feast day of month
21