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Bienheureux Edouard
Stransham et Nicolas Wheeler, prêtres et martyrs
Ils furent arrêtés lors
de la persécution ordonnée par la reine Elisabeth Ière et furent pendus pour
leur attachement à l'Eglise catholique romaine, à Londres en 1586.
Bienheureux Edouard
Stransham et Nicolas Wheeler
Prêtres (+ 1586)
Tous deux prêtres, ils
furent arrêtés lors de la persécution de la reine Élisabeth Ière et furent
pendus pour leur attachement à l'Église catholique romaine.
À Londres, en 1586, les
bienheureux martyrs Édouard Stransham et Nicolas Wheeler, prêtres, condamnés à
mort sous la reine Élisabeth Ière à cause de leur sacerdoce et conduits aux
supplices du gibet à Tyburn.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/5278/Bienheureux-Edouard-Stransham-et-Nicolas-Wheeler.html
The
One Hundred and Five Martyrs of Tyburn – 21 January 1586
Venerable Edward Stransham, secular priest
Venerable Nicholas
Woodfen or Wheeler, secular priest
The first of these
Martyrs was an Oxford man, both born and bred. Shortly after taking his
Bachelor’s degree at Saint John’s College, he became a convert to the Catholic
Faith and went over to Douai to study for the priesthood. He returned to
England in 1581, together with Nicholas Woodfen. The latter was born at
Leinster. His true name was Wheeler. While lodging in Fleet Street he
ministered under his assumed name to the gentlemen of the Inns of Court, whose
manner of dress he adopted. After enduring much poverty and persecution for
five years, both priests were put to death with great barbarity on the same
day.
– from The One Hundred and Five Martyrs of Tyburn, by
The Nuns of the Convent of Tyburn, 1917
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/the-one-hundred-and-five-martyrs-of-tyburn-21-january-1586/
29
October as one of the Martyrs
of Douai
1
December as one of the Martyrs
of Oxford University
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Educated at Oxford, England, Douai and Rheims, France. Ordained in 1580.
Returned to England in 1581 and
covertly ministered to Catholics in London and Oxford. Arrested in 1586 and martyred for
the crime of priesthood. Marytred with Blessed Thomas
Reynolds
Born
at Oxford,
Oxfordshire, England
hanged,
drawn, and quartered on 21
January 1586 at
Tyburn, London, England
8
December 1929 by Pope Pius
XI (decree of martyrdom)
15
December 1929 by Pope Pius
XI
Additional
Information
Mementoes
of the English Martyrs and Confessors, by Father Henry
Sebastian Bowden
Saints
of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein
books
A
Calendar of the English Martyrs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
other
sites in english
sitios
en español
Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición
fonti
in italiano
Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
MLA
Citation
“Blessed Edward
Stransham“. CatholicSaints.Info. 2 October 2021. Web. 15 January 2025.
<https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-edward-stransham/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-edward-stransham/
Bl. Edward Stransham
Feastday: January 21
Birth: 1554
Death: 1586
English martyr born
and educated at Oxford, England. Studying at Douai and
Reims, France, Edward was ordained in 1580 and was sent back to England in
1581. He worked in London and Oxford until
his arrest. Condemned, Edward was martyred at Tyburn. He was beatified in 1929.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3058
Mementoes
of the English Martyrs and Confessors – Venerable Edward Stransham, Priest,
1586
Article
He was born of good
Catholic parents in the parish of Saint Mary Magdalene, Oxford; was educated in
Saint John’s College in that university, and took his B.A. degree 1576. Shortly
after this he left the University, was reconciled to the Church, entered Douay,
and was ordained priest at Rheims in December 1580. He was sent on the English
Mission in June 1581, and was soon famous as a preacher; but he had a
particular gift for winning the souls of young men, and in July 1583 returned
to Rheims with a band of ten Oxford undergraduates, five of whom were from
Trinity College, viz. John Atkins, William Morgan, John and Walter Owen, and
Richard Blount. After remaining some time at Rheims with Cardinal Allen, who
loved him much, he returned to labour in London, and lived in constant peril of
arrest, but having great presence of mind he effected wonderful escapes. He had
bad health, being far gone in consumption; but he never ceased to mortify
himself, and generally wore a hair shirt. He had a great devotion to the Divine
Office, and rebuked a priest for saying it in bed, but his corrections were
always made with tact. He suffered at Tyburn, 21 January 1586.
MLA
Citation
Father Henry Sebastian
Bowden. “Venerable Edward Stransham, Priest, 1586”. Mementoes
of the English Martyrs and Confessors, 1910. CatholicSaints.Info.
21 April 2019. Web. 15 January 2025.
<https://catholicsaints.info/mementoes-of-the-english-martyrs-and-confessors-venerable-edward-stransham-priest-1586/>
Venerable Edward Stransham
English martyr, born at Oxford about 1554; suffered at Tyburn, 21 January, 1586. He was educated at St. John's College, Oxford, becoming B.A. in 1575-6; arrived at Douai in 1577, and went with the college to Reims in 1578, whence he came back to England owing to illness. In 1579, however, he returned to Reims, and was ordained priest at Soissons in Dec., 1580. He left for England, 30 June, 1581, with his fellow-martyr, Nicholas Woodfen, of London Diocese, ordained priest at Reims, 25 March, 1581. In 1583 Stransham came back to Reims with twelve Oxford converts. After five months there he went to Paris, where he remained about eighteen months at death's door from consumption. He was arrested in Bishopgate Street Without, London, 17 July, 1585, while saying Mass, and was condemned at the next assizes for being a priest. Details of his career will be found in the article mentioned below.
Sources
WAINEWRIGHT in Downside Review (1911) s.v., and the authorities there cited.
Wainewright, John. "Venerable Edward Stransham." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 21 Jan. 2017 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14313b.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2021 by Kevin Knight. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14313b.htm
Blessed Edward Stransham M (AC)
Born at Oxford, England; died 1586; beatified in 1929. Edward was educated at Saint John's College in Oxford, studied for the priesthood at Douai and Reims, and was ordained in 1580. He set off for the English mission the following year to work in London and Oxford for the next five years until his condemnation. Edward was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn for his priesthood (Attwater2, Benedictines).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0121.shtml
Also
known as
Nicholas Wheeler
Nicolas…
22
November as one of the Martyrs
of England, Scotland, and Wales
29
October as one of the Martyrs
of Douai
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Studied in Rheims, France. Priest.
Returned to London, England to
minister to covert Catholics at
the Inns of Court, all the while living in Fleet Street under the name Woodfen and
dressing like a lawyer.
He was eventually imprisoned, tortured and executed for
the crime of being a priest. Martyr.
Born
c.1550 in
Leominster, Herefordshire, England
hanged,
drawn, and quartered on 21
January 1586 at
Tyburn, London, England
10
November 1986 by Pope John
Paul II (decree of martyrdom)
22
November 1987 by Pope John
Paul II
Additional
Information
Mementoes
of the English Martyrs and Confessors, by Father Henry
Sebastian Bowden
books
A
Calendar of the English Martyrs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
other
sites in english
sitios
en español
Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición
fonti
in italiano
Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
nettsteder
i norsk
MLA
Citation
“Blessed Nicholas
Woodfen“. CatholicSaints.Info. 23 September 2021. Web. 15 January 2025.
<https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-nicholas-woodfen/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-nicholas-woodfen/
Mementoes
of the English Martyrs and Confessors – Venerable Nicolas Woodfen, Priest, 1586
Article
His true name was Nicolas
Wheeler. He was born at Leominster, Herefordshire, and in the school of that
town he was esteemed highly for his abilities. He performed his priest’s
studies at Douay and Rheims, and was ordained at the latter town, 25 March
1581. He was sent on the English Mission the following June, and arrived in
London in a state of great necessity, having, as he said, no money to buy food
and scarce clothes for his back. A fellow-priest, Father Davis, whose address
he found, supplied his immediate needs and introduced him to Catholics, and by
the help of Mr. Francis Brown, Lord Montague’s brother, a lodging was found for
him at a haberdasher’s in Fleet Street. There,disguised as a lawyer,he laboured
with great profit among the members of the Inns of Court, for he had a handsome
presence, affable and courteous manners, and great power of attraction. But
Morris, the pursuivant, found him out and forced him to flee. He was again
nearly caught with Father Davis in his next hiding-place at Sir T. Tresham’s
house at Hoxton, but his hour was not yet come. The third time, however, he
fell into the pursuivant’s hands he was tried, sentenced, and suffered with
great constancy at Tyburn, 21 January 1586.
MLA
Citation
Father Henry Sebastian
Bowden. “Venerable Nicolas Woodfen, Priest, 1586”. Mementoes
of the English Martyrs and Confessors, 1910. CatholicSaints.Info.
21 April 2019. Web. 15 January 2025.
<https://catholicsaints.info/mementoes-of-the-english-martyrs-and-confessors-venerable-nicolas-woodfen-priest-1586/>
Beati Edoardo Stransham e
Nicola Wheeler Sacerdoti e martiri
† Tyburn, Londra,
Inghilterra, 21 gennaio 1586
I sacerdoti inglesi
Edward Stransham (nato ad Oxford) e Nicholas Wheeler (nato a Leominster nel
1550 circa) furono decapitati sotto la regina Elisabetta I in quanto cattolici.
Furono beatificati rispettivamente nel 1929 e nel 1987.
Martirologio
Romano: A Londra in Inghilterra, beati Edoardo Stransham e Nicola Wheeler,
sacerdoti e martiri, che, condannati a morte sotto la regina Elisabetta I per
il loro sacerdozio, subirono il martirio a Tyburn.
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/Detailed/38415.html
Den salige Nicholas
Woodfen (~1550 - 1586)
Minnedag:
22. november
En av Åttifem salige
martyrer fra England, Skottland og Wales
Den salige Nicholas
Woodfen (alias Wheeler og stevnet som Devereux) ble født ca 1550 i Leominster i
Herefordshire i England. Han studerte og ble ordinert i Reims i 1581 og dro på
oppdrag til England samme år. Han tjenestegjorde som prest i London, særlig
blant medlemmer av Inns of Court, der utdanningen av jurister foregår. Han ble
tatt av underherolder og henrettet i Tyburn i 1586, ca 36 år gammel.
Han ble saligkåret av
pave Johannes Paul II den 22. november 1987 som en av Åttifem martyrer av
England, Skottland og Wales. De har felles minnedag 22. november, men han kan
også minnes 21. januar.
Kilder:
Attwater/Cumming - Kompilasjon og oversettelse: p. Per Einar Odden -
Sist oppdatert: 1998-05-03 22:56
SOURCE : https://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/nwoodfen
~ Martyrs of England and Wales († 1535-1680) ~ (III) - http://newsaints.faithweb.com/martyrs/England03.htm#Stransham
