Bienheureux EDOUARD STRANSHAM et NICOLAS WHEELER, prêtres et martyrs

« The Tyburn Tree » (L'arbre de Tyburn, gravure, 1680), appelé ainsi car le triple gibet en bois s'y dressa jusqu'en 1759.

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. 

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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

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.

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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).

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Blessed Edward Stransham

Memorial

• 21 January
• 29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai
• 1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University

Profile

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

Died

• hanged, drawn, and quartered on 21 January 1586 at Tyburn, London, England

Venerated

• 8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Additional Information

• The 105 Martyrs of Tyburn

• SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-edward-stransham/

Beati Edoardo Stransham e Nicola Wheeler Sacerdoti e martiri

21 gennaio

† 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