Robert Persons
Jesuit missionary and controversialist (1546-1610) · Religious Figures · Died at 63
Robert Persons, later known as Robert Parsons, was an English Jesuit priest. He was a major figure in establishing the 16th-century "English Mission" of the Society of Jesus.
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Engraving of Robert Persons c. 1640
Dedication of De persecvtione Anglicana commentariolus (1582) by Robert Persons to Cardinal Filippo Boncompagni
Page from Robert Persons's anonymous work of 1594 on the future succession to Elizabeth I, discussing Lady Arbella Stuart
Page from A Review of ten pvblike dispvtations or conferences (1604) by Robert Persons. The disputations were those involving Peter Martyr Vermigli (1549); John Madew around the same time; Andrew Perne and Edmund Grindal (23 June 1549); Perne again; public determination by Nicholas Ridley; Martin Bucer, still in 1549; Hugh Weston in St Paul's Cathedral on 18 October 1553; and the three days in 1554 of Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer and Ridley.About this person
Category
Religious Figures
Type
Religious Figure
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1546 to 1610 · aged 63
