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Bienheureux Edmond Sykes
Né à Leeds en Angleterre, il étudie au collège de Reims en France où il est ordonné prêtre le 21 février 1581 et renvoyé dans son pays le 5 juin. Il arpente son Yorkshire natal avec un grand zèle mais sa force faiblit. Il est trahi par un renégat qui profite de sa mauvaise santé. Emprisonné pendant six mois, il est condamné à l'exil et le 23 août 1585, il est transféré au château de Kingston et renvoyé par mer. Il va jusqu'à Rome où il est reçu au collège anglais; il comprend que sa mission est de rentrer en Angleterre où il est à nouveau trahi et emprisonné, condamné comme traître et martyrisé la 23 mars 1587 à York.
Bienheureux Edmond Sykes
Prêtre et martyr en Angleterre (+ 1587)
Né à Leeds en Angleterre, il étudie au collège de Reims en France où il est ordonné le 21 février 1581 et renvoyé dans son pays le 5 juin. Il arpente son Yorkshire natal avec un grand zèle mais sa force faiblit. Il est trahi par un renégat qui profite de sa mauvaise santé. Emprisonné pendant six mois, il est condamné à l'exil et le 23 août 1585, il est transféré au château de Kingston et renvoyé par mer. Il va jusqu'à Rome où il est reçu au collège anglais; il comprend que sa mission est de rentrer en Angleterre où il est à nouveau trahi et emprisonné, condamné comme traître et martyrisé la 23 mars 1586.
À York en Angleterre, l’an 1587, le bienheureux Edmond Sykes, prêtre et martyr. Sous la reine Élisabeth Ière, à cause de son sacerdoce, il fut envoyé en exil et, étant revenu en Angleterre, il fut livré aux derniers supplices du gibet.
Martyrologe romain
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Ridsdale Tate, York Castle is on the right hand side of the
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Edmund Sykes
Born at Leeds; martyred at York Tyburn 23 March, 1586-7; was a student at the College at Reims where he was ordained 21 Feb., 1581, and sent to the English Mission on 5 June following. He laboured in his native Yorkshire with such zeal and sacrifice, that his strength failed. Arthur Webster, an apostate, took advantage of his illness to betray him, and he was committed to the York Kidcot by the Council of the North. In his weakness he consented to be present at the heretical service but he refused to repeat the act and remained a prisoner. After confinement for about six months, he was again brought before the Council and sentenced to banishment. On 23 Aug., 1585, he was transferred to the Castle of Kingston-upon-Hull, and within a week shipped beyond the seas. He made his way to Rome, where he was entertained at the English College for nine days from 15 April, 1586, his purpose being to atone for his lapse by the pilgrimage, and he also entertained some thoughts of entering religion. There he understood that it was God's will that he should return to the English mission, and reaching Reims on 10 June, he left again for England on 16. After about six months he was betrayed by his brother, to whose house in Wath he had resorted, and was sent a close prisoner to York Castle by the Council. He was arraigned at the Lent Assizes, condemned as a traitor on the score of his priesthood, and on 23 March, 1586-7 was drawn on the hurdle from the castle yard to York Tyburn, where he suffered the death penalty.
Sources
Douay Diaries, Collectanea F, in FOLEY, Records S. J., III; Diary of English College, Rome in FOLEY, Records S. J., VI; MORRIS, Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers, III.
Whitfield, Joseph Louis. "Edmund Sykes." The
Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 22
Mar. 2015 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14368a.htm>.
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Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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Blessed Edmund Sykes, Martyr at York
Beato Edmondo Sykes Sacerdote e martire
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† York Tyburn, 23 marzo 1586-7
Martirologio Romano: A York in Inghilterra, beato
Edmondo Sykes, sacerdote e martire, che sotto il regno di Elisabetta I fu
costretto all’esilio per il suo sacerdozio; fatto poi nuovamente ritorno in
Inghilterra, fu consegnato all’estremo supplizio del patibolo.
