mardi 3 février 2015

Saint JEAN NELSON, prêtre jésuite et martyr



Bienheureux Jean Nelson, prêtre et martyr

Originaire des environs de York en Angleterre. Jésuite, il fit ses études sacerdotales au séminaire anglais de Douai à l'âge de quarante ans. De retour en Angleterre, il fut bientôt arrêté, puis exécuté à Tyburn en 1578, sous Élisabeth Ière à qui il refusait la puissance suprême en matière spirituelle.    

SOURCE : http://www.paroisse-saint-aygulf.fr/index.php/prieres-et-liturgie/saints-par-mois/icalrepeat.detail/2015/02/03/4275/-/bienheureux-jean-nelson-pretre-et-martyr

Saint Jean Nelson

Martyr jésuite en Angleterre (+ 1578)

Originaire des environs de York en Angleterre, jésuite, il fit ses études sacerdotales au séminaire anglais de Douai à l'âge de quarante ans. De retour en Angleterre, il fut bientôt arrêté, puis exécuté à Tyburn.

À Londres, en 1578, le bienheureux Jean Nelson, prêtre de la Compagnie de Jésus et martyr. Parce qu’il refusait de prêter le serment de suprématie de la reine Élisabeth Iére dans le domaine religieux, il fut condamné à mort et pendu à Tyburn.

Martyrologe romain

SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/5505/Saint-Jean-Nelson.html

Blessed John Nelson

Memorial

3 February

29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai

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Studied for the priesthood at DouaiFrance, beginning at age 39. Ordained at Binche, Hainault (in modern Belgium) on 11 June 1576. Two of his four brothers followed him into the priesthood. John returned to England on 7 November 1576 as a missioner to London. Joined the Jesuits at some point; though the date has been lost it was probably close to the time of his arrest.

In November 1577, he performed an exorcism on one of his parishioners; during the ceremony, the person predicted Father John’s impending doom. A week later, in the evening of 1 December 1577, John was arrested while at prayers, charged with Catholicism. On 30 January 1578 he managed to celebrate Mass in Newgate prison, apparently with materials that had been smuggled in. Condemned on 1 February 1578 for the treason of Catholic priesthood and refusal to acknowledge the Queen‘s supremacy in spiritual matters; he was thrown into the pit of the Tower of London for two days, and then excuted. His dying words were “I forgive the queen and all the authors of my death.”

Born

1534 at Skelton, Yorkshire, England

Died

hanged, drawn, and quartered on 3 February 1578 at Tyburn, London England

Beatified

29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmation)

Additional Information

105 Martyrs of Tyburn

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate

Catholic Encyclopedia

Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors, by Father Henry Sebastian Bowden

New Catholic Dictionary

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

Executed Today

Hagiography Circle

Katherine Rabenstein

sitios en español

Martirologio Romano2001 edición

fonti in italiano

Martirologio Romano2005 edition

Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

“Blessed John Nelson“. CatholicSaints.Info. 6 May 2020. Web. 4 December 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-john-nelson/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-john-nelson/

Blessed John Nelson

English Jesuit martyr, b. at Skelton, four miles from York, in 1534; d. at Tyburn, 3 February, 1577-78. He went to Douay in 1573, and two of his four brothers followed his example and became priests. He was ordained priest at Binche, in Hainault, by Mgr Louis de Berlaymont, Archbishop of Cambrai, 11 June, 1576. He was sent on the mission on 7 November following, and appears to have laboured in London. His apprehension took place 1 December, 1577, "late in the evening as he was saying the Nocturne of the Matins for the next day following", and he was committed to Newgate as a suspected Papist. His arrest and its issue had been foretold by a demon he had exorcised a week before. The High Commissioners in a few days by cross-examination induced him to say that the queen was a schismatic. This constituted high treason under the legislation of 1571. He was providentially enabled to say Mass in Newgate, 30 January, 1577-8, and two days later he was brought to the bar and condemned. Thenceforward he was confined "in a most filthy underground dungeon", doubtless the Pit of the Tower, preparing by prayer and fasting for his end. He was cut down alive, and his last words, when the hangman plucked out his heart, are reported to have been: "I forgive the queen and all the authors of my death." The date and place of his admission to the Society of Jesus are unknown.

Sources

CAMM, Lives of the English Martyrs, II (London, 1004-5), 223; ALLEN, A Briefe Historie (POLLEN's edition London, 1908) 111; GILLOW, Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics, V (London and New York, 1885-1902), 160.

Wainewright, John. "Blessed John Nelson." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 4 Dec. 2021 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08466d.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Tom Burgoyne. In memory of Father Baker, founder of Our Lady of Victory Homes.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

Copyright © 2020 by Kevin Knight. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

SOURCE : https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08466d.htm

The One Hundred and Five Martyrs of Tyburn – 3 February 1578

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Blessed John NelsonJesuit priest

This martyr was born at Shelton, near York. He was arrested on suspicion late one evening when saying Matins. The Oath of the Queen’s supremacy was offered to him, but he refused to take it, saying that the Pope’s Holiness was the Head of the Church “to whom that supreme authority on earth was due, as being Christ’s Vicar, and the lawful successor of Saint Peter.” When sentence was pronounced against him, he never changed countenance, but prepared himself with a good countenance to die. By God’s special providence, he received the Sacred Viaticum the day before he was arraigned. Arrived at Tyburn, he turned to the people, saying: “I call you all this day to witness that I die in the unity of the Catholic Church, and for that unity do now most willingly suffer my blood to be shed; and therefore I beseech God, and request you all to pray for the same, that it would please God of His great mercy to make you, and all others that are not such already, true Catholic men….” He then besought all who were of the like Faith to pray with him “that Christ, by the merits of His bitter Passion, would receive his soul into everlasting joy.” He was cut down when only half dead. As his heart was plucked out he was heard to murmur: “I forgive the Queen and all that were causers of my death.”

MLA Citation

The Nuns of the Convent of Tyburn. “3 February 1578”. The One Hundred and Five Martyrs of Tyburn1917. CatholicSaints.Info. 22 January 2020. Web. 4 December 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/the-one-hundred-and-five-martyrs-of-tyburn-3-february-1578/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/the-one-hundred-and-five-martyrs-of-tyburn-3-february-1578/

Book of Saints – John Nelson

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(Blessed) Martyr (February 3) (16th century) A native of Yorkshire, ordained priest somewhat late in life, at Douai. His missionary labours barely lasted one year. He was then arrested and hanged at Tyburn (A.D. 1578) for refusing the oath of Queen Elizabeth’s Supremacy. His last words were: “I forgive the Queen and all the causers of my death.”

MLA Citation

Monks of Ramsgate. “John Nelson”. Book of Saints1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 22 October 2013. Web. 4 December 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-john-nelson/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-john-nelson/

Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors – Blessed John Nelson, S.J., 1578

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Born in 1534 of an ancient Yorkshire family, he was nearly forty years of age when he went to the newly-established college at Douay and was ordained, and of his four brothers two followed his example. He returned to England 1577, and after a year’s ministry was called upon to exorcise a possessed person. The evil spirit, when it was cast out, told him that it would cost him his life. He was apprehended, Sunday, 1 December, as he was saying the next day’s Matins. He refused to take the oath of supremacy, declared repeatedly that the Pope was the Supreme Head of the Church and that the new religion set up in England was both schismatical and heretical as a voluntary departure from Catholic unity. For this statement he was condemned as guilty of high treason. He had always held that England would never be restored to the Church save by blood-shedding, and that his own life would be taken for that cause. He received his sentence therefore with great calmness and prepared himself for death. He was confined in a filthy underground dungeon infested with vermin. The jailer’s wife offered him some wine, but he refused it, saying he would prefer water or rather vinegar and gall, to more closely follow his Lord.

The thought of the joy and alacrity with which the martyrs suffered so comforted him, that he doubted not he himself would be consoled by God in the midst of his agony. And surely this courage and willingness to die came from this: that on the Thursday before his arraignment and death he had cleansed his conscience by confession, and had fortified himself by receiving the Blessed Sacrament of the altar. A priest, his friend, wishing to be communicated by Nelson, fixed upon Candlemas day, because of the solemnity of the Feast, but, reflecting that such festivals are more subject to suspicion, they concluded to defer it till the day after Candlemas; but Mr. Nelson wished rather to anticipate the Feast and to communicate upon the Thursday before, which was done: though, at that time, neither he nor any of his friends suspected that he should so shortly come to his martyrdom. When, be hold! the very next day after, word was brought him that he was to be arraigned on the morrow, and should be undoubtedly condemned if he did not revoke his former words, and so indeed it fell out. Thus by God’s special providence he had chosen the Thursday before the Feast; for otherwise, he must have died without the sacred viaticum.

Upon Monday, 3 February 1577, being the day of his martyrdom, he came very early, before day, up to the higher part of the prison; where as, from Saturday till then, he had been kept in a low dungeon. Two of his nearest kinsmen coming to him found him earnest at his prayers with his hands joined together and lifted up, insomuch that the other prisoners there pre sent did both mark it and wonder at it much. When they had talked awhile together, and he saw them so full of sorrow that they had much ado to abstain from weeping, yet for all that he was nothing moved himself, neither gave any sign or appearance of sorrow either in voice or countenance, but rebuked them, saying that he looked for some comfort and consolation of them in that case, and not by their tears to be occasioned to grieve; willing them further to weep for their sins, and not for him, for he had a sure confidence that all should go well with him. When his kinsmen took their last farewell, they fell into such immoderate lamentations that he was somewhat moved, but repressed nature, and dismissed them. He suffered at Tyburn, the second of the seminarist martyrs, and was admitted into the Society of Jesus before his death.

MLA Citation

Father Henry Sebastian Bowden. “Blessed John Nelson, S.J., 1578”. Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors1910. CatholicSaints.Info. 21 April 2019. Web. 4 December 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/mementoes-of-the-english-martyrs-and-confessors-blessed-john-nelson-s-j-1578/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/mementoes-of-the-english-martyrs-and-confessors-blessed-john-nelson-s-j-1578/

Blessed John Nelson, SJ M (AC)

Born in Skelton near York, England; died at Tyburn, England, in 1578; beatified in 1886. At age 40, John Nelson began his studies for the priesthood at Douai and was ordained in 1575 (or 1576). He was sent to the English mission but was soon arrested in London and sentenced for refusing the Oath of Supremacy. He became a Jesuit shortly before his death by hanging, drawing, and quartering at Tyburn outside London (Attwater2, Benedictines).

SOURCE : https://web.archive.org/web/20191030055346/http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0203.shtml

1578: Blessed John Nelson, martyr

February 3rd, 2013

On this date in 1578, John Nelson was martyred at Tyburn.

A Catholic who had popped across to Flanders to train as a priest, Nelson was captured after about a year’s ministry in December 1577.

Matters with this minor martyr proceeded according to the usual script from that point. Interrogators put it to him whether Queen Elizabeth was the proper head of the Church of England — that old chestnut. The wrong answer would be treason.

[Nelson] was brought forth to be examined before the high commissioners. Here they tendered him the oath of the queen’s supremacy, which he refused to take; and being asked, why he would not swear, he answered, because he had never heard, or read, that any lay prince could have that pre-eminence. And being farther demanded, who then was the head of the church, he answered, sincerely and boldly, that the pope’s holiness was, to whom that supreme authority in earth was due, as being Christ’s vicar, and the lawful successor of St. Peter.

Secondly, [t]hey asked him his opinion of the religion now practised in England; to which he answered, without any hesitation, that it was both schismatical and heretical. Whereupon they bid him define what schism was; he told them, it was a voluntary departure from the unity of the catholic Roman faith. Then (seeking to ensnare him) they farther urged, what is the queen then, a schismatic or no? … he answered, conditionally, if she be the setter forth [of Anglicanism], said he, and defender of this religion, now practised in England, then she is a schismatic and a heretic.

After he was cut down alive from his hanging so that he could be disemboweled and quartered, Nelson’s last words were reportedly “I forgive the queen and all the authors of my death.”

SOURCE : http://www.executedtoday.com/2013/02/03/1578-blessed-john-nelson-martyr/

Beato Giovanni Nelson Sacerdote e martire

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Martirologio Romano: A Londra in Inghilterra, beato Giovanni Nelson, sacerdote della Compagnia di Gesù e martire, che negò alla regina Elisabetta I la potestà suprema nelle questioni spirituali e, condannato per questo a morte, a Tyburn morì impiccato.

SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/39490