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Bienheureux Guillaume Richardson, prêtre et martyr
William Richardson nait dans le Sheffield et se forme pour devenir prêtre à Valladolid puis à Séville où il est ordonné en 1594. De retour en Angleterre, il exerce clandestinement son ministère sous le nom d’Anderson. Arrêté cependant, il est exécuté à Tyburn en 1603.
Bienheureux Guillaume Richardson
Prêtre et martyr en Angleterre (+ 1603)
Né William Richardson dans le Sheffield, il fait ses études pour la prêtrise à Valladolid puis à Séville en Espagne et y est ordonné en 1594. De retour en Angleterre, il utilise le nom de Anderson. Il est rapidement arrêté et exécuté à Tyburn en 1603, dernier martyr de la répression d'Élisabeth Iére, ses derniers mots auraient été une prière pour la reine.
À Londres, en 1603, le bienheureux Guillaume Richardson, prêtre et martyr. Ordonné prêtre à Séville en Espagne, il fut pendu au gibet de Tyburn, parce qu’il était entré comme prêtre en Angleterre, et fut le dernier martyr sous le règne d’Élisabeth Ière.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/11486/Bienheureux-Guillaume-Richardson.html
Ven. William Richardson
(Alias Anderson.) Last martyr under
Queen Elizabeth; b. according to Challoner at
Vales in Yorkshire (i.e. presumably Wales,
near Sheffield), but, according to the Valladolid diary, a Lancashire
man; executed at Tyburn, 17 Feb., 1603. He arrived at Reims 16
July, 1592 and on 21 Aug. following was sent to Valladolid,
where he arrived 23 Dec. Thence, 1 Oct., 1594, he was sent
to Seville where he was ordained.
According to one account he was arrested at Clement's Inn on 12 Feb.,
but another says he had been kept a close prisoner in
Newgate for a week before he was condemned at the Old Bailey on the 15 Feb.,
under stat. 27 Eliz., c. 2, for being a priest and
coming into the realm. He was betrayed by one of his trusted friends to
the Lord Chief Justice, who expedited his trial and execution with
unseemly haste, and seems to have acted more as a public prosecutor
than as a judge. At his execution he showed great courage and
constancy, dying most cheerfully, to the edification of all beholders. One of
his last utterances was a prayer for
the queen.
Wainewright, John. "Ven. William
Richardson." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York:
Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 27 Feb.
2021 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13046a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for
New Advent by Christine J. Murray.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. February
1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal
Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2020 by Kevin Knight. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13046a.htm
Also known as
William Anderson
Profile
Grew up in the area of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Studied at Rheims, France,
the English College, Valladolid, Spain and
the College of Saint Gregory in Seville, Spain from 1592 through 1594. Ordained in 1594.
He returned to England to
minister to covert Catholics,
often hiding under the name William Anderson. Betrayed to the authorities
by a friend, he was arrested and
condemned to death for
the crime of priesthood.
He was the final martyr in
the persecutions of Queen Elizabeth
I; he prayed for
her just before he died.
Born
hanged,
drawn, and quartered on 27
February 1603 at
Tyburn, London, England
8
December 1929 by Pope Pius
XI (decree of martyrdom)
15
December 1929 by Pope Pius
XI
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“Blessed William Richardson“. CatholicSaints.Info.
5 June 2020. Web. 27 February 2021.
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The
One Hundred and Five Martyrs of Tyburn – 17 February 1603
Venerable William
Richardson, secular priest
He was born in Yorkshire, and was a priest of the
seminaries of Douai and Spain. On returning to England, he found a refuge in
the Inns of Court, and brought many into the Catholic Church, especially among
the young lawyers, numbers of whom placed themselves under his direction. When,
after a few years, he was arrested, his spiritual sons would gladly have risked
their lives in planning his escape by night. This he utterly refused to permit,
saying: “I know well it comes from your great love for me… But what could you
possibly wish for me that could be more honourable or more glorious… than to
die… for the confession of the true Faith and the Christian religion… Rather
strive with me in prayer to God that He may give me prudence and wisdom to
reply discreetly to the judges, and strength of soul to bear whatever
sufferings are laid upon me.” He was sentenced to the most barbarous penalties
decreed against priests, and the following day was dragged to Tyburn, escorted
by many of his fervent disciples, who ever and again pressed to the side of the
hurdle to wipe the slush from his face, and at the last they could not be kept
back from crowding to kiss his hands and obtain his blessing till he mounted
the ladder by which he was to ascend to God.
Five weeks later, Elizabeth was called to appear
before the Just Judge, after a reign of more than forty-four years.
– 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-17-february-1603/
Beato Guglielmo Richardson Sacerdote e martire
† Tyburn, Inghilterra, 27 febbraio 1603
William Richardson, nativo del Galles, morì nella
persecuzione indetta dalla regina Elisabetta I e con numerose altre vittime fu
beatificato nel 1929.
Martirologio Romano: Sempre Londra, beato Guglielmo Richardson, sacerdote e martire, che ordinato a Siviglia in Spagna, per il suo sacerdozio fu impiccato a Tyburn, ultimo martire sotto la regina Elisabetta I.
