The "Tyburn Tree"
Bienheureux Robert Drury, prêtre et martyr
Robert Drury, anglais né en 1567, fut ordonné prêtre à Valladolid en Espagne en 1592, puis retourna dans sa patrie en 1593 comme missionnaire. Sous le roi Jacques Ier, il fut arrêté, jugé et condamné à mort. Il monta à la potence en habit ecclésiastique, comme une ultime prédication, et fut pendu à Tyburn en 1606.
Bienheureux Robert Drury
Prêtre et martyr en Angleterre (+ v. 1606)
Robert Drury (1567 - 26 février 1606/07) ordonné prêtre à Valladolid en Espagne en 1592, il retourna en Angleterre en 1593 comme missionnaire. Il survécut en signant un acte d'allégeance à la reine Élizabeth mais en spécifiant que le Pape était successeur de saint Pierre. Cette déclaration a été signée par plusieurs membres du clergé catholique et satisfaisait Élizabeth. Le roi James qui lui succéda, insista pour avoir une autre déclaration mentionnant que le Pape était hérétique. Robert Drury refusa de signer, fut arrêté et condamné à mort. Il fut pendu à Tyburn et plus tard déclaré martyr par l'Église.
À Londres, en 1607, le bienheureux Robert Drury, prêtre et martyr. Faussement accusé de complot contre le roi Jacques Ier, il fut conduit à Tyburn, revêtu du vêtement ecclésiastique pour preuve de son état sacerdotal, et subit le supplice de la potence.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/10171/Bienheureux-Robert-Drury.html
Robert Drury voulut mourir en portant ses habits
sacerdotaux
De fausses accusations le font exécuter à Tyburn
Rome, 26 février 2013 (Zenit.org) Anita
Bourdin
Le martyrologe romain fait aujourd’hui mémoire d’un prêtre anglais, martyr, le bienheureux Robert Drury (+1607).
Robert Drury fait partie des 62 compagnons de Georges Haydock martyrs d’Angleterre, d’Ecosse et du Pays de Galles béatifiés par Jean-Paul II en 1987.
Ils ont été arrêtés, jugés et exécutés pour avoir refusé d’accepter le statut que les souverains anglais, depuis Henri VIII imposaient à l’Eglise catholique.
Ce prêtre catholique fut ainsi accusé faussement d’avoir
participé à la conjuration dite “des Poudres” par laquelle des catholiques
anglais avaient projeté de faire sauter le Parlement, en 1605 et de tuer le roi
Jacques Ier. La conspiration échoua à la suite de l’arrestation de l’un des
conjurés, Guy Fawkes.
Le jour de son exécution, à Tyburn, Robert Drury voulut porter son habit sacerdotal distinctif, iniquant ainsi clairement pour quelle fidélité, il acceptait la mort.
(26 février 2013) © Innovative Media Inc.
SOURCE : http://www.zenit.org/fr/articles/robert-drury-voulut-mourir-en-portant-ses-habits-sacerdotaux
Robert Drury, 1567-1607
Life History
1567 : Born
1607 : Hanged
at Tyburn
Notes
From 'The History of the Family of Drury In the Counties of Suffolk and Norfolk From the Conquest' by Arthur Campling, London, 1937.
Attended "college lately founded at Valladolid by
Philip II of Spain for the education of the English clergy. After being
ordained priest there, he was sent in 1593 to England, where he zealously
laboured on the mission, chiefly in London and its vicinity. He was one of the
appellant priests who opposed the proceedings of the archpriest Blackwell, and
his name occurs among the signatures attached to the appeals of 17 November
1600, dated from the prison at Wisbech. He was one of the thirteen secular
priests who, in response to the Queen's proclamation subscribed the celebrated
protestation of allegiance 31 Jan. 1602-3, which was drawn up by William
Bishop, afterwards Bishop of Chalcedon. In 1606 the government of James I
imposed upon catholics a new oath, which was to be the test of their civil
allegiance. About this time Drury was apprehended, brought to trial, and
condemned to death for being a priest and remaining is this realm, contrary to
the statute of 27 Eliz. He refused to save his life by taking the new oath, and
consequently he was drawn to Tyburn, hanged, and quartered on 20 February,
1606-7."
From ' The History of the Family of Drury ..'
"and later declared a Martyr by the Church."
SOURCE : http://www.drewry.net/Drury/indiI325.html
Blessed Robert Drury
Also
known as
- Robert
Drewrie
- 26 February
- 22 November as one of the Martyrs of England, Scotland, and Wales
- 29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai
Profile
Studied at the English College, Rheims, France in 1588, and the English College, Valladolid, Spain in 1590. Ordained at Valladolid in 1593. Returned to England in 1593 to minister to covert Catholics around London, England. One of the signers of the loyal
address of 31 January 1603 which acknowledged the queen as lawful sovereign on earth, but maintained
their loyalty in religious matters to the Pope. When James I came to the throne, the king required them to sign a new oath which
acknowledged his authority over spiritual matters. Robert refused, and
was arrested in 1606 for the crime of being a priest. He was offered his freedom if he would sign
the oath; he declined. Martyr.
Born
- hanged, drawn, and quartered on 26 February 1607 at Tyburn, London England
- 10 November 1986 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)
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MLA Citation
- “Blessed Robert
Drury“. CatholicSaints.Info. 2 February 2020. Web. 12
February 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-robert-drury/>
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Ven. Robert Drury
Martyr (1567-1607), was born of a good Buckinghamshire family and was received into the English College at Reims, 1 April, 1588. On 17 September, 1590, he was sent to the new College at Valladolid; here he finished his studies, was ordained priest and returned to England in 1593. He laboured chiefly in London, where his learning and virtue made him much respected among his brethren. He was one of the appellants against the archpriest Blackwell, and his name is affixed to the appeal of 17 November, 1600, dated from the prison at Wisbech. An invitation from the Government to these priests to acknowledge their allegiance and duty to the queen (dated 5 November, 1602) led to the famous loyal address of 31 January, 1603, drawn up by Dr. William Bishop, and signed by thirteen of the leading priests, including the two martyrs, Drury and Cadwallader. In this address they acknowledged the queen as their lawful sovereign, repudiated the claim of the pope to release them from their duty of allegiance to her, and expressed their abhorrence of the forcible attempts already made to restore the Catholic religion and their determination to reveal any further conspiracies against the Government which should come to their knowledge. In return they ingenuously pleaded that as they were ready to render to Caesar the things that were Caesar's, so they might be permitted to yield to the successor of Peter that obedience which Peter himself might have claimed under the commission of Christ, and so to distinguish between their several duties and obligations as to be ready on the one hand "to spend their blood in defence of her Majesty", but on the other "rather to lose their lives than infringe the lawful authority of Christ's Catholic Church". This bold repudiation of the pope's deposing power was condemned by the theological faculty of Louvain; bit it is noteworthy that its author was selected by the pope himself as the very man in whose person he would revive the episcopal authority in England; Dr. William Bishop being nominated Bishop of Chalcedon and first vicar Apostolic in that country in 1623.
The results of the address were
disappointing; Elizabeth died within three months of its signature,
and James I soon proved that
he would not be satisfied with any purely civil allegiance. He thirsted
for spiritual authority, and, with the assistance of an apostate Jesuit,
a new oath of
allegiance was drawn up, which in its subtlety was designed to trouble
the conscience of Catholics and
divide them on the lawfulness of taking it. It was imposed 5 July, 1606, and
about this time Drury was arrested. He was condemned for his priesthood,
but was offered his life if he would take the new oath.
A letter from Father
Persons, S.J., against its lawfulness was found on him. The oath declared
that the "damnable doctrine"
of the deposing power was "impious and heretical", and
it was condemned by Pope
Paul V, 22 September, 1606, "as containing many things contrary to
the Faith and Salvation". This brief, however, was
suppressed by the archpriest,
and Drury probably did not know of
it. But he felt that his conscience would
not permit him to take the oath,
and he died a martyr at
Tyburn, 26 February, 1606-7. A curious contemporary account of his martyrdom,
entitled "A true Report of the Arraignment . . . of a Popish Priest named
Robert Drewrie" (London, 1607), which has been reprinted in the
"Harleian Miscellany", calls him a Benedictine,
and says he wore his monastic habit at the execution. But
this "habit" as described proves to be
the cassock and cap work by the secular
clergy. The writer adds, "There were certain papers shown at
Tyburn which had been found about him, of a very dangerous and traitorous nature,
and among them also was his Benedictine faculty
under seal, expressing what power and authority he had from the pope to
make men, women,
and children here of his order; what indulgence and pardons he could
grant them", etc. He may have been
a confrater or oblate of the order.
Camm, Bede. "Ven. Robert
Drury." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Robert
Appleton Company, 1909. 12 Feb.
2021 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05165a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for
New Advent by Gerald M. Knight.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil
Obstat. May 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M.
Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2020 by Kevin
Knight. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05165a.htm
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Robert Drury fu beatificato da Giovanni Paolo II nel
1987.
Martirologio Romano: A Londra in Inghilterra,
beato Roberto Drury, sacerdote e martire, che, ingiustamente accusato di congiura
contro il re Giacomo I, a Tyburn, indossato l’abito ecclesiastico per
dimostrare la dignità sacerdotale, patì per Cristo il supplizio del patibolo.
