St. Robert Southwell: Bethlehem’s Poet
The Mass and the Missions, Part III (2 of 2)
The Food of Love
Fr. Southwell’s corpus of writing shared one purpose with his priestly ministry: to feed the starving souls of his spiritual children. Fr. Devlin makes a most interesting observation in his account of the 1586 meeting of St. Robert and the great composer William Byrd:
The beauty of church music was one of the chief means by which the recu…
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