mercredi 21 janvier 2015

Saint ALBAN BARTHOLOMEW ROE et THOMAS REYNOLDS GREEN, prêtres et martyrs


Saint Alban-Barthélémy Roe et Thomas Green, prêtres et martyrs

Membre de la Communion anglicane et élève à Cambridge, Alban Roe se convertit au catholicisme. Il poursuivit ses études au séminaire anglais de Douai et devint bénédictin en 1612, dans l'actuel Ampleforth. Pendant vingt-huit ans, il travailla dans la mission anglaise avant d’être arrêté. Après dix-sept années d’incarcération, il fut pendu à Londres-Tyburn, en 1642, sous le roi Charles Ier. Avec lui périt Thomas Green, emprisonné durant quatorze ans.     

SOURCE : http://www.paroisse-saint-aygulf.fr/index.php/prieres-et-liturgie/saints-par-mois/icalrepeat.detail/2015/01/21/12540/-/saint-alban-barthelemy-roe-et-thomas-green-pretres-et-martyrs

Saint Alban-Barthélémy Roe

Un des quarante martyrs d'Angleterre (+ 1642)

Membre de la Communion anglicane et élève à Cambridge, il se convertit au catholicisme. Il poursuivit ses études au séminaire anglais de Douai et devint bénédictin en 1612, dans l'actuel Ampleforth. Pendant 28 ans, il travailla dans la mission anglaise et fut arrêté. Il subit le martyre à Londres-Tyburn, comme tant d'autres. 

Il fait partie des Quarante martyrs d'Angleterre et du Pays de Galles qui ont été canonisés en 1970. 

À Londres, en 1696, saint Alban Roe, bénédictin, et le bienheureux Thomas Green, prêtres et martyrs. Sous le roi Charles Ier, l’un après dix-sept ans, l’autre après quatorze ans passés en prison, et tous deux d’un âge déjà avancé, furent ensemble pendus pour le Christ au gibet de Tyburn.

Martyrologe romain

SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/5273/Saint-Alban-Barthelemy-Roe.html

Bartholomew Roe

(VENERABLE ALBAN).

English Benedictine martyr, b. in Suffolk, 1583; executed at Tyburn, 21 Jan., 1641. Educated in Suffolk and at Cambridge; he became converted through a visit to a Catholic prisoner at St. Albans which unsettled his religious views. He was admitted as a convictor into the English College at Douai, entered the English Benedictine monastery at Dieulward where he was professed in 1612, and, after ordination, went to the mission in 1615. From 1618 to 1623 he was imprisoned in the New Prison, Maiden Lane, whence he was banished and went to the English Benedictine house at Douai but returned to England after four months. He was again arrested in 1625, and was imprisoned for two months at St. Albans, then in the Fleet whence he was frequently liberated on parole, and finally in Newgate. He was condemned a few days before his execution under the statute 27 Eliz. c. 2, for being a priest. With him suffered Thomas Greene, aged eighty, who on the mission had taken the name of Reynolds. He was probably descended from the Greenes of Great Milton, Oxfordshire, and the Reynoldses of Old Stratford, Warwickshire, and was ordained deacon at Reims in 1590, and priest at Seville. He had lived under sentence of death for fourteen years, and was executed without fresh trial. They were drawn on the same hurdle, where they heard each other's confessions, and were hanged simultaneously on the same gibbet amidst great demonstrations of popular sympathy.

Sources

GILLOW, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath., III, 36; V, 437; CHALLONER, Missionary Priests, II, nos. 166, 167; POLLEN, Acts of the English Martyrs (London, 1891), 339-43.

Wainewright, John. "Bartholomew Roe." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 21 Jan. 2017 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13109d.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Joseph E. O'Connor.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.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/13109d.htm

Saint Alban Roe

Fr Alban Roe was baptised Bartholomew sometime in 1583, in Suffolk. He attended Cambridge University, and while there experienced something that caused his conversion to Catholicism.

While visiting in St Albans, he heard that a Catholic recusant had been put in prison there for his beliefs, and chose to visit the prisoner, in order to argue him out of his superstitious ways. It did not work out like that, and the Catholic prisoner instead, persuaded Bartholomew that he needed change.

 In February 1608 he took up a place in the English College (a seminary) in Douai, eager to become a priest. He was expelled in 1611, however, for criticising the principal.

It so happened that a Benedictine house was given permission to establish itself at Douai in December of 1608, and it seems likely that young Bartholomew was acquainted with it. At any rate, wishing to avoid further embarrassment in Douai, he joined the noviciate at another English monastery, St Lawrence’s at Dieulouard in 1613. Once ordained he went to England where he worked in secret as a priest.

 In 1618 however he was imprisoned for being a priest in England - a ‘crime’ which carried the death penalty. Fortunately, he was released by King James I in a general amnesty in 1623 and banished. He returned to England however, and was re-arrested in 1625 and imprisoned in St Alban’s where his adventure had begun so many years before.

 Luckily for him, his friends had him removed to the Fleet prison in London where circumstances were much better. Indeed, like many others, he was allowed out into the streets of London by day so long as he gave his word (Fr. ‘parole’ ) that he would return by nightfall. He used his freedom to minister to many.

 While King Charles I governed without parliament, no imprisoned priests were executed. When the Long Parliament convened, however, the hangings began again in earnest (20 between 1641 and 1646 including Fr Alban). On the 21st January 1642, he and Fr Thomas Reynolds, a priest in his 80s, offered their last mass and were led to the gallows. They gave each other absolution.

 Just before his death, Alban asked the sheriff if his life would be spared if he renounced his Catholic religion and became an Anglican. The sheriff swore he would be spared if he did. Alban then said to all: “See, then, what the crime is for which I am to die, and whether my religion be not my only treason... I wish I had a thousand lives; then would I sacrifice them all for so worthy a cause.” They were allowed to hang until they were dead before being quartered.

SOURCE : http://www.abbey.ampleforth.org.uk/the-community/our-patrons

Alban Bartholomew Roe, OSB, Priest M (RM)

Born in Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, England, c. 1583; died at Tyburn, England, 1642; canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

Bartholomew Roe was a student at Cambridge when he met an imprisoned Catholic and was so impressed by his faith that he was converted to Catholicism. He studied at Douai in France, but was dismissed for an infraction of discipline. Then he became a Benedictine monk at Dieulouard (Dieuleward, now Ampleforth), France, in 1612, taking the name Alban, was ordained, and sent on the English mission.

Father Alban was arrested in 1615, imprisoned, and then banished; but he was back in England four months later and again arrested in 1618 and imprisoned in the New Prison until 1623, when he was released through the intercession of the Spanish ambassador.

Father Alban was exiled a second time. After a short stay at Douai, he returned to England and worked until his arrest in 1625 during the reign of King Charles I. He spent the next 17 years in prison until he was finally tried, convicted on January 19 of being of Catholic priest, and two days later hanged, drawn, and quartered together with Blessed Thomas Reynolds. Apparently, Alban Roe had a lively disposition; he laughed and joked on the scaffold at Tyburn (Attwater2, Benedictines, Delaney). 

SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0121.shtml

Blessed Thomas Reynolds M (AC)

(also known as Thomas Green)

Born at Oxford; died 1642; beatified 1929. Thomas's true name was Green, but like many Catholics of his time used an alias. After being educated for the priesthood at Rheims, Valladolid, and Seville, he was ordained in 1592 and returned to the English mission, where he worked for nearly 50 years (for once the alias worked!). He must have been about 80 years old when he was hanged, drawn, and quartered for his priesthood at Tyburn together with Saint Bartholomew Roe (Attwater2, Benedictines).

SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0121.shtml

Statues polychromes sur le jubé de la cathédrale de Saint-Alban (de gauche à droite) d'Oscar Romero, Alban Roe, Amphibalus, Alban, George Tankerfiels, Elisabeth Romanova et Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Sculpture in St Albans Cathedral, depicted holding a hand of playing cards


Saint Alban Bartholomew Roe

Memorial

21 January

25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai

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Convert to CatholicismStudied at the English College at DouaiFrance, but was dismissed for an infraction of discipline. Benedictine priest in 1612 at Dieulouard, FranceMissionary to England. He was arrested and exiled in 1615 for his work. Returning to England in 1618, he was arrested again. He sat in prison until 1623 when the Spanish ambassador obtained his release on condition that Alban leave England. Soon after, Alban returned to his homeland and continued his covert ministry. Arrested again in 1625, he lay in prison for 17 years before being tried and condemned to death for the crime of priesthood. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Walesdying with Blessed Thomas Reynolds.

Born

1583 in Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, England

Died

hanged, drawn, and quartered on 21 January 1642 at Tyburn, LondonEngland

Venerated

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

Beatified

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Canonized

25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI

Additional Information

The 105 Martyrs of Tyburn

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

Catholic Online

Hagiography Circle

sitios en español

Martirologio Romano2001 edición

fonti in italiano

Martirologio Romano2005 edition

Santi e Beati

spletne strani v slovenšcini

Svetniki

MLA Citation

“Saint Alban Bartholomew Roe“. CatholicSaints.Info. 2 September 2022. Web. 21 January 2023. https://catholicsaints.info/saint-alban-bartholomew-roe/

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-alban-bartholomew-roe/

Portrait (based on a modern model) of Blessed Thomas Reynolds (+1642), priest and martyr, in the Royal English College, Valladolid


Blessed Thomas Reynolds

Also known as

Richard Reynolds

Thomas Green

Memorial

21 January

29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai

1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University

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Studied at RheimsFrance, and at Valladolid and Seville in SpainOrdained in 1592 in Cadiz, Spain, he returned to England to minister to covert Catholics, but was arrested and exiled in 1606. He returned and worked in secret until his arrest in 1628. He spent fourteen years in prison before being martyred with Blessed Edward Stransham.

Born

c.1562 at OxfordEngland as Thomas Green

Died

hanged, drawn, and quartered in 31 January 1642 at Tyburn, LondonEngland

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

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

Catholic Online

Hagiography Circle

The Royal English College of St Alban

fonti in italiano

Martirologio Romano2005 edition

Readings

I dare look death in the face. – Blessed Thomas to his executioners when offered a blindfold

MLA Citation

“Blessed Thomas Reynolds“. CatholicSaints.Info. 11 October 2021. Web. 21 January 2023. <https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-thomas-reynolds/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-thomas-reynolds/

 Ss Thomas Green and Alban Roe

January 31, 2011 by joyfulpapist

Thomas Green (alias Reynolds) and Alban (born Bartholomew) Roe were missionary priests secretly serving Catholics in post-Reformation England. They were quite unlike in most respects, but they died as brothers, martyrs for their priesthood.

St. Thomas Reynolds, fat in body but suffering infirmities caused by his hard apostolic life, was about eighty when he was hanged. He was a secular priest, ordained at about thirty.

In 1606 the British government rounded up forty-seven Catholic priests, and because they were breaking the law just by being priests, it sent them into exile. Thomas, like most of the forty-seven, came back to England in secret and carried on his hazardous ministry for nearly fifty years.

Arrested as a priest once again in 1628, he was sentenced to death for that “crime,” but then kept in jail for fourteen years. He had served his flock lovingly, by example as well as by word. Despite that zeal, he was personally a timid man, afraid of the long-deferred death that he knew awaited him.

His companion on the scaffold was to be a Benedictine monk – Alban Roe. From his youth, Bartholomew Roe had been one of those daring people who thrive on adversity. As a Protestant student at Cambridge, Roe (born 1583) visited a Catholic jailed for his faith, apparently hoping to convert him. Instead, the would-be converter was himself won over to Catholicism.

Once received into the Church, Bartholomew went to the Netherlands to enroll at Douai seminary as a candidate for the Catholic priesthood.

Somehow or other, he got into hot water with the seminary authorities and was dropped for “insubordination” in 1611. Still desiring to become a priest, Roe, armed with testimonials in his favor from his fellow students at Douai, joined the English Benedictine community of St. Laurence, in Lorraine. Once ordained a priest, he was sent back to work on the English mission.

Dom Alban proved an able missionary during the few years he was free, despite the fact that he irked a few prim people by his easy manners. He was captured in 1612 and held five years in prison. The Spanish ambassador secured his release, but the government warned him to leave the country for good, or else … He did go to Douai, but soon sneaked back into England as Thomas Reynolds had. After only two years of work he was again arrested in 1627, and imprisoned at St. Alban’s prison-the very place where he had received the grace of faith.

The rest of his life he spent as a prisoner. However, when he was transferred to a minimum-security jail in London, he was able to carry on a valuable apostolate in the prison itself and even, to an extent, on the outside. This situation lasted until the days of the anti-Catholic Long Parliament. On January 19, 1642, he was tried as a priest and “seducer of the people,” and condemned to be hanged, drawn and quartered.

It was then that Thomas Reynolds and Alban Roe were brought together. Reynolds told Roe of his fears of dying. Roe replied with powerfully comforting words.

The two were told to get ready for the trip to the Tyburn Hill gallows on January 21, 1642 (January 31 in the reformed calendar). “Well, how do you find yourself now?” the monk asked his aged companion. “In very good heart,” Reynolds replied. “Blessed be God for it, and glad I am to have for my comrade in death a man of your undaunted courage.”

Having mounted the gallows, Reynolds stated that he forgave his enemies; and he moved the sheriff deeply by praying that he (the sheriff) would merit the “grace to be a glorious saint in heaven.”

Roe, in his turn, greeted the people cheerily. “Well, here’s a jolly company!” he exclaimed with a fine contempt for death. He told bystanders that his religion was the sole cause of his death. If he should reject Catholicism even now, he said, he would be released. His last word of conversation was a joking remark made to one of his prison turnkeys.

The two priests had already absolved each other. Now they recited the psalm “Miserere” alternately. As the traps were sprung and their bodies fell, each called out “Jesus!” They were allowed to die before their bodies were disemboweled and cut up. A gracious concession!

Saints Thomas Reynolds and Alban Roe had fortified each other in the cruel hour of death. God expects us all to be supportive of each other. That is love, isn’t it?

–Father Robert F. McNamara

SOURCE : https://joyfulpapist.wordpress.com/tag/st-alban-roe/

The One Hundred and Five Martyrs of Tyburn – 21 January 1642

Venerable Bartholomew Alban Roe, Benedictine priest

Venerable Thomas Green or Reynolds, secular priest

The Benedictine Monk, known in religion as Father Alban, was born in Suffolk and brought up as a Protestant. All his life he was full of zeal, and it was in the attempt to refute the ‘errors’ of a man imprisoned at Saint Alban’s for holding the Catholic Faith that he received the initial grace of his own conversion. After this interview, in which his adversary gained the victory, he was never at peace until he found himself in the safe port of the True Church. Having entered the Benedictine Order in Lorraine, he prepared himself with assiduity to exercise the apostolate in England. He spent a great part of his life in prison, once in Maiden Lane, afterwards at Saint Alban’s, whence he was removed to the Fleet Prison, where he remained for seventeen years. He never lost his dauntless gaiety, and amid his many and severe sufferings of mind and body he never ceased to labour for souls.

Venerable Thomas Reynolds was born in Oxford, and studied abroad for the sake of the Catholic Religion no longer tolerated in his own country. He returned after receiving Holy Orders, and, passing through many vicissitudes, he was condemned to death at the advanced age of eighty years, fifty of which he had spent in the ministry of the priesthood. His companion in martyrdom, Father Alban Roe, met him with a cheerful countenance before the hurdle that was to convey them both to Tyburn. The two martyrs made their confessions to each other and recited the “Miserere” alternately. “Friend, pray let all be secure and do thy duty neatly, I have been a neat man all my life,” the old priest said to the executioner. “I dare look death in the face,” said Father Roe, when they would have bound his eyes.

– 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-1642/

Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors – Venerable Reynolds, Priest, and Venerable Roe, O.S.B., 1641

Article

Both were converts, Reynolds from Oxford, Roe from Cambridge. Reynolds was ordained at Seville, and returned to England about 1590. For fifty years he laboured in the Mission, was banished, imprisoned, sentenced, reprieved, then suddenly ordered for execution. He was very infirm from age, his great size, and many sufferings. When the summons came he earnestly prayed for fortitude. Roe became a Benedictine at Dieulwart, Lorraine, was there ordained, braved all dangers on the English Mission, was banished, and finally imprisoned for seventeen years. To add to the miseries of his long confinement, he suffered from the stone, and endured cheerfully two operations. He was at last led out to execution with Father Reynolds. Lying down on the hurdle by his side, he felt his pulse, and jokingly asked him how he felt. “In good heart,” said Father Reynolds, and blessed God for giving him a companion of such undaunted courage. Their way to Tyburn was like a triumphal procession. The Catholics threw themselves on their knees, begged their blessings, and kissed their hands and garments. Thus both together won their crowns.

MLA Citation

Father Henry Sebastian Bowden. “Venerable Reynolds, Priest, and Venerable Roe, O.S.B., 1641”. Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors1910. CatholicSaints.Info. 21 April 2019. Web. 21 January 2023. <https://catholicsaints.info/mementoes-of-the-english-martyrs-and-confessors-venerable-reynolds-priest-and-venerable-roe-o-s-b-1641/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/mementoes-of-the-english-martyrs-and-confessors-venerable-reynolds-priest-and-venerable-roe-o-s-b-1641/

Sant' Albano Roe Sacerdote benedettino, martire

21 gennaio

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Martirologio Romano: A Londra in Inghilterra, sant’Albano Roe, dell’Ordine di San Benedetto, e beato Tommaso Green, sacerdoti e martiri: sotto il re Carlo I, il primo dopo aver passato diciassette anni in carcere e l’altro quattordici, ormai vecchi, insieme furono sospesi per Cristo al patibolo a Tyburn.

Fu uno dei numerosissimi martiri, ecclesiastici e laici di ogni condizione, dal semplice prete o frate all’alto prelato, come pure dall’umile popolano al facoltoso aristocratico, che patirono per la fede cattolica in Inghilterra nel XVI e XVII secolo, anche se il martirologio inglese non ha certo il suo inizio nella persecuzione scatenata da Enrico VIII nel 1535 con lo scisma d’Inghilterra e conclusasi con la fine del regno di Carlo II nel 1681, ma comincia già al tempo di Diocleziano e si arricchisce durante le invasioni successive degli Anglosassoni e dei Normanni. L’«Atto di supremazia» del 1534 rese definitiva la separazione dell’Inghilterra da Roma; proclamato quindi il re unico capo della Chiesa inglese, venne contemporaneamente sancito che chiunque si fosse rifiutato di riconoscere la sua supremazia spirituale si sarebbe reso colpevole di alto tradimento e come tale sarebbe stato punibile con la morte, cercandosi in tal modo di nascondere il motivo religioso sotto il movente politico. Ebbe così inizio il lungo bagno di sangue dell’Inghilterra cattolica durato quasi un secolo e mezzo, inaugurato con un gruppo di Certosini londinesi il 4 maggio 1535 e nel quale morirono quanti preferirono salire sul patibolo piuttosto che rinnegare la fede dei loro padri e negare obbedienza al pontefice romano. Bartolomeo Albano Roe nacque a Suffolk nel 1585 e fece gli studi a Cambridge. Fu convertito al cattolicesimo dalle risposte di un carcerato cattolico che egli voleva convertire al protestantesimo. Lasciò allora il suolo patrio e si laureò in teologia nel Collegio Inglese di Douai in Francia, che il futuro cardinale Guglielmo Allen aveva fondato nel 1568 appunto per la formazione dei giovani sacerdoti da inviare poi nella loro patria per tentare di convertire nuovamente coloro che avevano abbracciato l’anglicanesimo; per la stessa ragione era stato trasformato in seminario nel 1578 l’antico Collegio Inglese di Roma, auspice sempre l’Allen, e che si meritò il titolo di Seminarium martyrum: tutti sapevano che il ritorno di quei giovani preti in Inghilterra equivaleva a una sentenza di morte. Emessa la professione nel 1612 e ordinato sacerdote, Bartolomeo Roe tornò in patria, ma fu presto arrestato. Dopo cinque anni di carcere venne liberato nel 1623 grazie all’intervento dell’ambasciatore di Spagna, ma fu esiliato. Non si diede per vinto, e dopo appena pochi mesi tornò in Inghilterra. Tradito, fu nuovamente chiuso in carcere, dove esercitò il ministero sacerdotale tra i compagni di sventura. Dopo qualche tempo gli fu concesso il permesso di uscire liberamente dalla prigione, ed egli se ne valse per darsi all’apostolato. Fu scoperto e condannato a morte. Salì sul patibolo il 21 gennaio 1642. Nel monastero di Downside si conserva un panno imbevuto del suo sangue.

Fonte : Giornale di Brescia

SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92119

Beato Tommaso Green Sacerdote e martire

21 gennaio

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Oxford, Inghilterra, 1558 circa – Londra, Inghilterra, 21 gennaio 1642

Thomas Green si preparò al sacerdozio missionario per riportare il cattolicesimo in Inghilterra, studiando nei collegi di Reims, Valladolid e Siviglia. Esiliato, tornò in patria in segreto, ma venne incarcerato per quattordici anni. Subì il martirio per impiccagione insieme al benedettino dom Alban Roe il 21 gennaio 1642, all’età di ottant’anni. È stato beatificato nel 1929.

Martirologio Romano: A Londra in Inghilterra, sant’Albano Roe, dell’Ordine di San Benedetto, e beato Tommaso Green, sacerdoti e martiri: sotto il re Carlo I, il primo dopo aver passato diciassette anni in carcere e l’altro quattordici, ormai vecchi, insieme furono sospesi per Cristo al patibolo a Tyburn.

Thomas Green nacque nella città di Oxford verso il 1558 e, come altri giovani universitari educati secondo la religione dei padri, mal si adattava all’anglicanesimo. Così, per prepararsi a diventare sacerdote e missionario nella sua stessa terra, si trasferì nel collegio retto dai Gesuiti a Reims, in Francia. Di lì passò negli altri due centri di formazione situati a Valladolid e a Siviglia.

Ordinato nel 1592, partì per l’Inghilterra. Nel 1606 il governo inglese catturò quarantasette sacerdoti cattolici, per il solo fatto di essere tali, e li costrinse all’esilio. Padre Green, che era tra costoro, come la maggior parte di essi riuscì a tornare in patria clandestinamente. Esercitò il suo ministero per circa cinquant’anni sotto il falso nome di Reynolds, finché, nel 1628, non venne arrestato. Ricevette la condanna, ma non venne giustiziato, anche se non gli venne formalmente concesso l’indulto. Per questo motivo, a partire dal 1635 ottenne dei permessi per uscire dal carcere, che impiegò per proseguire la sua missione. 

Tuttavia, quando re Carlo I riuscì a convocare nuovamente il Parlamento, le misure contro i prigionieri si fecero più aspre. Il 19 gennaio 1642 padre Green venne condannato definitivamente, insieme al benedettino dom Alban (al secolo Bartholomew) Roe. Al suo compagno di prigionia confidò che aveva paura di affrontare la morte, dopo che era stata a lungo differita. Di rimando, l’altro l’incoraggiò con parole consolanti.

Il 21 gennaio fu il giorno fissato per l’esecuzione. «Ebbene, come ti trovi ora?», domandò il monaco al suo compagno, anziano come lui (aveva ottant’anni). «Di buon umore», replicò padre Green. Dom Roe rispose: «Sia benedetto Dio per questo, e sono felice di avere come compagno nella morte un amico di coraggio indomabile come te». Oltre alle pene passate nei lunghi anni di prigionia, i due dovettero patire anche il freddo e il peso delle gogne a cui furono costretti durante il tragitto verso la forca.

Una volta salito il patibolo, padre Reynolds dichiarò che perdonava i propri nemici e commosse lo sceriffo invocando Dio per meritare la «grazia di essere un glorioso santo in paradiso». I due sacerdoti, dopo essersi confessati e assolti a vicenda, recitarono il Miserere alternandosi. Il loro ultimo grido, quando si aprirono le botole sotto i loro piedi, fu il nome di Gesù.

Mentre dom Roe è stato canonizzato nel 1970, padre Green venne incluso nel gruppo di candidati agli altari che furono riconosciuti martiri con decreto dell’8 dicembre 1929 e dichiarati Beati il 15 dicembre 1929.

Autore: Emilia Flocchini 

SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/96392

Albano Roe, Santo y Tomás Green, Beato

Sacerdotes y Mártires, 21 de enero

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Sacerdotes y Mártires

Martirologio Romano: En Londres, Inglaterra, san Albano (Alban Bartolomé) Roe, de la Orden de San Benito, y beato Tomás Green, presbíteros y mártires, los cuales, ya ancianos, durante el reinado de Carlos I dieron su vida por Cristo, siendo ahorcados en Tyburn después de haber pasado en la cárcel diecisiete años el primero y catorce el segundo (1642).

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San Albano Bartolomé 

Fecha de canonización: 25 de Octubre de 1970 por el Pope Paulo VI.

Fue uno de los numerosos mártires de entre clérigos y laicos de toda condición, (del simple cura o fraile al alto prelado, del humilde pueblerino al adinerado aristócrata), que padecieron por la fe católica en la Inglaterra de los siglos XVI y XVII, aunque en honor a la verdad hay que indicar que el martirologio inglés ciertamente no tiene su inicio en la persecución azuzada por Enrico VIII desde 1535 con el cisma de Inglaterra ni tampoco concluye al final del reinado de Carlo II en el 1681, realmente da inicio en el tiempo de Diocleciano y se acrecienta durante las invasiones de los anglosajones y los normandos.

El «Acta de Supremacía» de 1534 hace definitiva la separación de Inglaterra de Roma; proclamado por lo tanto al rey como único jefe de la iglesia inglesa, al mismo tiempo se legisló para que quienquiera que se negase a reconocer la supremacía espiritual del rey pudiera ser culpable de alta traición y como tal ser condenado a morir, buscando de ese modo esconder el motivo religioso bajo el móvil político. Así tuvo inicio un largo baño de sangre de la Inglaterra católica que duró casi siglo y medio.

Los primeros mártires fueron un grupo de cartujos londinenses ejecutados el 4 de mayo de 1535 por cuanto prefirieron subir sobre el cadalso antes que renegar la fe de sus padres y negar obediencia espiritual al romano pontífice.

Albano Bartolomé Roe nació en Suffolk en el 1585 y realizó sus estudios en Cambridge. Fue convertido al catolicismo por las respuestas de un preso católico que él quiso convertir al protestantismo. Entonces dejó el suelo patrio y se licenció en teología en el Colegio Inglés de Douai en Francia, que el futuro cardenal Guillermo Allen fundó en la 1568 con la intención de formar jóvenes sacerdotes que luego regresarían a su patria para intentar convertir de nuevo a los que abrazaron el anglicanismo; con la misma intensión fue transformado, en 1578, el antiguo Colegio Inglés de Roma, siempre bajo el auspicio de Allen, y que mereció ser conocido como “Seminarium martyrum”: todos sabían que a el retorno de aquellos jóvenes presbíteros a Inglaterra equivalía a una sentencia de muerte.

Emitida la profesión en el 1612 y ordenado sacerdote, Bartolomé Roe volvió a su patria, pero fue detenido muy poco tiempo después. Estuvo cinco años en la cárcel siendo liberado en 1623 gracias a la intervención del embajador de España, pero fue desterrado. No se dio por vencido, y después de pocos meses volvió a Inglaterra. Traicionado, fue encarcelado de nuevo, ejerció el ministerio sacerdotal entre los compañeros de prisión. Después de algún tiempo le fue concedido el permiso de salir libremente de la prisión lo que él aprovechó para realizar su apostolado. Fue descubierto y condenado a muerte. Subió al cadalso el 21 de enero1642. En el monasterio de Downside se mantiene un paño mojado con su sangre.
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Beato Tomás Green

Fecha de beatificación: 15 de diciembre de 1929 por el Papa Pío XI.

Tomas Reynolds Green nace alrededor del año 1562 en Oxford, Inglaterra. Estudió en Reims (Francia) y en Valladolid y Sevilla (España). Recibió la ordenación sacerdotal el año 1592 y regresó a Inglaterra con el ministerio de lograr la conversión de los ingleses al catolicismo, pero fue capturado y exiliado en 1606. Retornó a su patria y trabajó en secreto hasta que fue nuevamente arrestado en el año 1628. Pasó catorce años en prisión hasta que fuera ahorcado y luego descuartizado el 31 de enero de 1642.

SOURCE : http://es.catholic.net/op/articulos/36692/albano-roe-santo-y-tomas-green-beato.html#modal

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