Feb 21 1595 Jesuit St. Robert Southwell was hanged, drawn and quartered in Tyburn. For six years he carried on a clandestine ministry in Elizabethan England before his arrest. His famous poem "The Burning Babe" describes a vision of Christ on Xmas. (Icon: William Hart McNichols)
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Not where I breath, but where I love, I live;
Not where I love, but where I am, I die;
The life I wish, must future glory give,
The deaths I feele in present daungers lye.
--St. Robert Southwell, SJ
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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