Bienheureux Roger Filcock
Martyr en
Angleterre (+ 1601)
Roger Filcock
(1570-1601) arrêté en Angleterre pendant sa période probatoire avant
d'entrer chez les jésuites. Il a étudié à Reims, puis à Valladolid.
Avec le père Marc
Barkworth, bénédictin, il fut traîné dans les rues de Tyburn. Les deux
prêtres s'encouragèrent en priant ensemble. Ils arrivèrent juste après
l'exécution d'Anne Line qui
avait été la pénitente du père Filcock.
Voir aussi:
- Biographies des six
saints et des seize bienheureux du collège de saint Alban, le
séminaire anglais de Valladolid. (en anglais)
À Londres, en 1601,
sainte Anne Line, veuve et martyre. Née de parents calvinistes, qui la
déshéritèrent et la chassèrent de chez eux quand elle devint catholique, elle
épousa Roger Line, qui mourut en exil à cause de la foi catholique. Après sa
mort, elle fournit un hébergement à des prêtres à Londres, et pour cela, fut
pendue à Tyburn, sous la reine Élisabeth Ière. Avec elle subirent le même
supplice les bienheureux prêtres et martryrs Marc Barkworth, bénédictin,
et Roger Felcock, de la Compagnie de Jésus, qui furent mis en pièces alors
qu'ils respiraient encore.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/10172/Bienheureux-Roger-Filcock.html
Roger Filcock (1570-1601)
Roger Filcock (1570-1601)a
été arrêté pendant qu’il accomplissait une période probatoire avant d’entrer au
noviciat Il avait étudié au Collège Anglais à Reims en France et à Valladolid
en Espagne, mais quand il demanda d’entrer dans la Compagnie, on lui suggéra de
renouveler sa demande après avoir exercé son ministère en Angleterre pendant un
peu de temps.
Le voyage vers
l’Angleterre fut difficile. Le navire qui l’emmenait de Bilbao à Calais en
France fut arrêté par un calme plat et devint la proie d’un navire hollandais
qui bloquait le port. Roger Filcock fut capturé, mai réussit à s’échapper et
débarqua secrètement sur la côte de Kent. Peu de temps après avoir commencé à
exercer son ministère, il contacta la P. Henry Garnet, le supérieur des
jésuites, lui demandant d’être accepté comme jésuite. En 1600 il a été accepté
dans la Compagnie, mais fut trahi par quelqu’un avec qui il avait étudié à
Valladolid. Il a été arrêté et envoyé dans la prison de Newgate à Londres. Son
procès ne dura pas longtemps, malgré le manque de preuves : il n’avait utilisé
aucun des noms qui figuraient dans l’acte d’accusation. Avec le P. Mark
Barkworth, un bénédictin, il a été attaché à une claie et traîné par les rues
de Londres jusqu’à Tyburn. Le P. Barkworth fut le premier à être pendu,
éviscéré et écartelé. Le P. Filcock put observer les souffrances de son
compagnon, sachant que son tour suivrait. Les 2 prêtres avaient récité des
antiennes pour s’encourager l’un l’autre.
Initialement regroupé et
édité par: Tom Rochford,SJ
Traducteur: Guy Verhaegen
SOURCE : https://www.jesuits.global/fr/saint-blessed/le-bienheureux-roger-filcock/
Also
known as
Arthur Nayler
22 November as
one of the Martyrs
of England, Scotland, and Wales
29 October as
one of the Martyrs
of Douai
Profile
Educated at Rheims, France and Valladolid, Spain. Ordained in Valladolid c.1597.
He returned to England in 1598 to
minister to covert Catholics. Jesuit.
Friend of Saint Anne
Line. Arrested and
condemned for the crime of priesthood. Died with Saint Anne
Line and Blessed Mark
Barkworth. One of the Martyrs
of England, Scotland, and Wales.
Born
c.1570 in
Sandwich, Kent, England
hanged,
drawn, and quartered on 27 February 1601 at
Tyburn, London, England
10 November 1986 by Pope John
Paul II (decree of martyrdom)
22 November 1987 by Pope John
Paul II
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Blessed Roger Filcock, SJ
Born: Circa 1570
Died: February 27, 1601
Beatified: November 22,
1987
Fr Roger Filcock was born
in Sandwich, Kent, England. He studied at the English college in Rheims, France
and was amongst the first students to go to St Alban’s seminary in Valladolid,
Spain, where he was ordained in 1597. When he requested to enter the Society of
Jesus in Spain, he was encouraged to return to England before applying again.
He headed for Calais, France, on a ship which was pursued by Dutch ships.
Rather than permitting themselves to be taken captive, many passengers jumped
ship and successfully made it to shore. Fr Filcock however, was captured but managed
to escape and landed on the Kent shore of England in early 1598 where he
assumed the alias of Arthur and began his priestly ministry. His desire to be a
Jesuit remained strong and he wrote to the Jesuit superior in England, Fr Henry
Garnet, asking to be admitted and this was granted in 1600.
While waiting to go to
Flanders for his novitiate, Fr Filcock was apprehended, betrayed by a former
fellow student at Valladolid and sent to Newgate prison in London. In 1601, Fr
Filcock was charged for being a priest but he would neither admit nor deny,
insisting that witnesses and evidence be brought forth. As none was
forthcoming, he was brought for trial and heard the indictment against him. He
requested to be tried without jury because he did not want the verdict, which
he knew would be against him to be on the jurors’ consciences. Nevertheless,
the judge directed the jury to find the defendant guilty and Fr Filcock was
sentenced to the gallows for high treason.
In prison, Fr Filcock met
Fr Mark Barkworth, Benedictine, who was his fellow student in Valladolid and
they were to be companions in death. On February 22, the day of execution, the
2 priests were bound together, tied to a hurdle and then dragged to Tyburn.
They arrived just after the execution of Anne Line, who was once Fr Filcock’s
penitent. Seeing her body still hanging from the beam, Fr Filcock kissed the
hem of her garment and said: “Blessed Anne Line, a thousand times more blessed
than I, you beat me in the contest and in winning the crown.” Just before Fr
Barkworth’s martyrdom, he intoned the Latin antiphon, “This is the day the Lord
has made,” and Fr Filcock sang out the response, “Let us rejoice and be glad.”
Fr Filcock witnessed the hanging and butchering of his companion but the horrid
sight made him more resolute in his willingness to die for Christ. When it was
his turn, the sheriff tried to get him to admit his treason, which he firmly
denied. He said, quoting St Paul: “I desire to be dissolved and to be with
Christ,” and added that he was dying because he was: “a Catholic, a priest and
a member of the Society of Jesus”. After a short prayer, the cart was drawn
from under him and he was hanged, then cut down, disemboweled and quartered. Fr
Filcock was beatified by Pope John Paul II in November 22, 1987 .
SOURCE : https://www.jesuit.org.sg/feb-27th-roger-filcock-sj/
Blessed Roger Filcock
Roger Filcock (1570-1601)
was arrested in England while he was fulfilling a probationary period prior to
entering the Jesuits. He had studied at the English College in Rheims, France
and then in Valladolid, Spain, but when he asked to join the Society he was
encouraged to apply again after ministering for awhile in England.
His journey into England
was difficult enough. The ship he was traveling on from Bilbao, Spain to
Calais, France, was becalmed just outside the port and fell pray to a Dutch
ship blockading the harbor. Filcock was captured, but managed to escape and
land surreptitiously on the shore in Kent in 1598. Soon after he began his
ministry, he contacted Father Henry Garnet, the Jesuit superior, asking to
become a Jesuit. He was accepted into the Society in 1600, but then was
betrayed by someone he had studied with in Spain. He was arrested and committed
to Newgate Prison in London. His trial did not last long, despite the fact that
there was no evidence against him and that the names in the indictment were not
names he had used. Together with Father Mark Barkworth, a Benedictine, he was
tied to a hurdle and dragged through the streets to Tyburn. Barkworth was first
to be hung, disembowelled and quartered. Filcock had to watch his companion
suffer, knowing that he would immediately follow. The two priests prayed antiphonally
to support each other.
SOURCE : http://www.sjweb.info/saintsBio.cfm?SaintID=374
Blessed Roger Filcock
Born at Sandwich, Kent,
the son of Simon and Margaret Lowe (or Low), he entered the English College at
Rheims on 15 June 1581. From there he was sent on 29 September 1581 to the
English College, Valladolid, where he arrived on 20 February 1591. There is no
record of where and when he was ordained a priest, but this happened by October
1597, when he left the college and sailed from Bilbao to Calais in December.
His desire was to enter the Society of Jesus, but it was considered prudent
that he first gain some experience on the mission, as indeed he did. He was
admitted as a Jesuit novice by Father Henry Garnet in 1600 and should have
proceeded to Flanders to the novitiate, but was in the meantime arrested on
suspicion of being a priest and sent to Newgate gaol in London.
During his time as a
missioner he had known Anne Line, a convert to the Catholic faith and widow
whose husband had died in exile after being caught attending Mass. She had
managed a variety of safe-houses for priests and lay faithful. Filcock had
also been Line's confessor.
Born at Sandwich,
Kent, the son of Simon and Margaret Lowe (or Low), he entered
the English College at Rheims on 15 June 1581. From
there he was sent on 29 September 1581 to the English College, Valladolid,
where he arrived on 20 February 1591. There is no record of where and when he
was ordained a priest, but this happened by October 1597, when he left the
college and sailed from Bilbao to Calais in December. His
desire was to enter the Society of Jesus, but it was considered prudent
that he first gain some experience on the mission, as indeed he did. He was
admitted as a Jesuit novice by Father Henry Garnet in 1600 and should
have proceeded to Flanders to the novitiate, but was in the meantime
arrested on suspicion of being a priest and sent to Newgate gaol
in London.
During his time as a
missioner he had known Anne Line, a convert to the Catholic faith and
widow whose husband had died in exile after being caught attending Mass. She
had managed a variety of safe-houses for priests and lay faithful. Filcock had
also been Line's confessor.
On Candlemas Day, 1601,
Father Francis Page was about to celebrate Mass in her lodgings when
priest-catchers broke in. The priest escaped in the confusion but his hostess
was arrested and put on trial at the Old Bailey on 26 February, either 1601 or
1602, indicted for harbouring a priest. Although this could not be proved, she
was condemned and led to the gallows the next day. She was executed at the same
occasion as Dom Mark Barkworth, a Benedictine monk, and Filcock,
who had gone on trial on 23 February. This was the first execution of Catholics
at Tyburn since 1595.
In St John's church there
is a memorial window to Blessed Roger Filcock in the Lady Chapel, where a red
candle burns to remind us of his faith and sacrifice, and our own call to
holiness.
SOURCE : http://www.catholicmas.com/blessedrogerfilcock.htm
Blessed Roger Filcock
(1570-1601)
Blessed Roger Filcock (1570-1601)
was arrested in England while he was fulfilling a probationary period prior to
entering the Jesuits. He had studied at the English College in Rheims, France
and then in Valladolid, Spain, but when he asked to join the Society he was
encouraged to apply again after ministering for awhile in England.
His journey into England
was difficult enough. The ship he was traveling on from Bilbao, Spain to
Calais, France, was becalmed just outside the port and fell pray to a Dutch
ship blockading the harbor. Filcock was captured, but managed to escape and
land surreptitiously on the shore in Kent in 1598. Soon after he began his
ministry, he contacted Father Henry Garnet, the Jesuit superior, asking to
become a Jesuit. He was accepted into the Society in 1600, but then was
betrayed by someone he had studied with in Spain. He was arrested and committed
to Newgate Prison in London. His trial did not last long, despite the fact that
there was no evidence against him and that the names in the indictment were not
names he had used. Before he suffered, he paid tribute to Father Barkworth,
saying, "Pray for me to our Lord, whose presence you now enjoy, that
I too may faithfully run my course."
St. Anne Line was among the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales canonized by
Pope Paul VI in 1970. She, St. Margaret Clitherow and St. Margaret Ward share a
separate Feast on August 30 (the date of St. Margaret Ward's martyrdom in 1588)
in the dioceses of England. Blessed Mark Barkworth was beatified by Pope Pius
XI on 15 December 1929. Pope John Paul II beatified Blessed Roger Filcock on
the 22nd of November 1987.
SOURCE : http://supremacyandsurvival.blogspot.ca/2016_02_01_archive.html
Beato Ruggero
Filcock Sacerdote gesuita, martire
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Sandwich, Inghilterra,
circa 1572 – Londra, Inghilterra, 27 febbraio 1601
Roger Filcock, vissuto
all’epoca della regina Elisabetta I, frequentò i collegi per futuri missionari
inglesi di Reims e Valladolid, retti dalla Compagnia di Gesù. Egli stesso
domandò di essere ammesso in quella congregazione, ma gli venne suggerito di
attendere e di guadagnare esperienza. Tornato in Inghilterra, intraprese il
ministero sotto falso nome (Nayler o Arthur), ma venne scoperto e arrestato.
Condannato a morte, venne impiccato e squartato a Londra il 27 febbraio 1601,
dopo il suo compagno di prigionia, il benedettino Mark Barkworth, e una sua
penitente, la vedova Anne Line. È stato beatificato il 22 novembre 1987.
Martirologio Romano: A
Londra in Inghilterra, sant’Anna Line, vedova e martire, che, morto il marito
in esilio per la fede cattolica, procurò in questa città una casa ai sacerdoti
e per questo, sotto la regina Elisabetta I, a Tyburn fu impiccata. Insieme a
lei patirono anche i beati sacerdoti e martiri Marco Barkworth, dell’Ordine di
San Benedetto, e Ruggero Filcock, della Compagnia di Gesù, dilaniati con la
spada mentre erano ancora vivi.
Figlio di Simon e
Margaret Lowe (o Low), Roger Filcock nacque a Sandwich nel Kent. Frequentò il
collegio retto dai Gesuiti a Reims, in Francia, dove si formavano i futuri
missionari per riportare il cattolicesimo in Inghilterra. Nel 1590 i Gesuiti
aprirono un nuovo centro di formazione, il Real Collegio di Sant’Albano a
Valladolid, in Spagna, e Filcock vi si trasferì il 20 febbraio 1591.
Desiderava entrare nella
Compagnia di Gesù, ma fu invitato ad attendere il ritorno in patria per
riprovarci e guadagnare esperienze. Non esistono dati certi sulla sua
ordinazione sacerdotale, ma dovette sicuramente accadere prima dell’ottobre
1597, quando lasciò il Collegio e, a dicembre, salpò da Bilbao, diretto verso
Calais.
La nave su cui viaggiava,
però, venne inseguita da velieri olandesi: piuttosto che lasciarsi catturare,
molti passeggeri si gettarono in mare e riuscirono ad arrivare a riva. Filcock,
invece, venne catturato, ma riuscì a scappare e approdò sulla costa del Kent
agli inizi del 1598. Assunto il falso nome di Nayler o Arthur, intraprese il
suo ministero sacerdotale. Durante la sua attività, divenne il confessore di
Anne Line, una vedova che si era occupata di alcuni rifugi per sacerdoti e
laici cattolici, il cui marito era morto in esilio dopo essere stato sorpreso a
partecipare alla Messa.
Nel frattempo, rimase
fermamente deciso a riprovare l’ammissione tra i Gesuiti: scrisse quindi al
superiore in Inghilterra, padre Henry Garnet, per domandargli il consenso. Con
sua grande gioia, gli venne concesso nel 1600, insieme alla destinazione per
compiere il noviziato nelle Fiandre.
Ma, proprio mentre si
preparava a partire, venne tradito da un ex compagno di studi a Valladolid,
arrestato e condotto nel carcere di Newgate, a Londra. Accusato di essere un
sacerdote, non ammise e neppure negò, ma insistette che venissero presentati
prove e testimoni a riguardo. Dato che nessuno si presentò, venne processato:
chiese di non avere una giuria, in quanto non voleva che il verdetto, che sarebbe
stato chiaramente contro di lui, pesasse sulle coscienze dei giurati. Tuttavia,
il giudice pilotò la giuria in modo da dichiararlo colpevole per alto
tradimento, la pena abituale per chi riconosceva solo nel Papa la suprema
autorità religiosa anche per gli inglesi.
In prigione, padre
Filcock incontrò Mark Barkworth, un suo compagno di studi in Spagna, Oblato
benedettino. Il 27 febbraio, giorno fissato per l’esecuzione, la prima che
vedeva oggetto dei cattolici dal 1595, i due vennero legati insieme, attaccati
a una gogna e trascinati al Tyburn, dov’era preparato per loro il patibolo.
Lungo la strada, Barkworth intonò in latino il Salmo del giorno di Pasqua:
«Questo è il giorno che ha fatto il Signore: rallegriamoci in esso ed
esultiamo»; padre Filcock lo seguì nel canto.
Arrivarono al Tyburn poco
dopo l’esecuzione di Anne Line. Al vedere il suo corpo che ancora pendeva dal
cappio, il gesuita le baciò la mano (altre fonti dicono l’orlo della sua veste)
ed esclamò: «Beata Anne Line, mille volte più beata di me, mi hai battuto nella
gara e nel guadagnare la corona. Ma presto ti seguiremo, se l’Onnipotente
vorrà».
Poco dopo, fu il turno
del suo compagno di prigionia. Padre Filcock osservò il massacro cui il suo
cadavere venne sottoposto, ma non desistette dalla sua volontà di martirio.
Quando toccò a lui, lo sceriffo tentò di fargli confessare il tradimento, ma
lui negò coraggiosamente. Citando san Paolo, affermò: «Desidero essere dissolto
ed essere con Cristo» e aggiunse che stava per morire in quanto «cattolico,
sacerdote e membro della Compagnia di Gesù».
Dopo una breve preghiera,
gli venne sottratto il carretto da sotto i piedi. Successivamente, dopo che gli
venne tagliata la corda, venne sventrato e squartato.
Padre Roger Filcock fu
inserito in un gruppo di ottantacinque candidati agli altari inglesi del
sedicesimo secolo, la cui causa di beatificazione venne introdotta il 9
dicembre 1886. Il decreto sul loro martirio arrivò cent’anni dopo, il 10
novembre 1986, e aprì la via alla beatificazione, avvenuta il 22 novembre 1987.
Autore: Emilia
Flocchini
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/96389
Den salige Roger Filcock
(~1570 - 1600)
Minnedag:
22. november
En av Åttifem salige
martyrer fra England, Skottland og Wales
Den salige Roger Filcock
ble født ca 1570 i Sandwich i Kent i England. Han studerte ved de engelske
kollegiene i Reims i Frankrike og Valladolid i Spania, hvor han ble presteviet
som sekularprest. Han ble sendt på oppdrag til England i 1598. Han arbeidet i
to år og ble opptatt i Jesu Selskap av p. Garnet. Han
skulle reise til Flandern for å bli novise, men ble fengslet i Newgate og
henrettet for høyforræderi i Tyburn i 1600 ved å bli hengt, buksprettet og
partert, «hanged, drawn and quartered», ca 30 år gammel.
Han ble saligkåret av
pave Johannes Paul II den 22. november 1987 som en av Åttifem martyrer av
England, Skottland og Wales. De har felles minnedag 22. november, men han kan
også minnes 27. februar.
Kilder:
Attwater/Cumming - Kompilasjon og oversettelse: p. Per Einar Odden -
Sist oppdatert: 1998-05-03 22:57
SOURCE : https://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/rfilcock
~ Martyrs of England and
Wales († 1535-1680) ~ (IV) : http://newsaints.faithweb.com/martyrs/England04.htm#Filcock
