The
Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham, Durham Cathedral
Bienheureux Thomas
Plumtree
Prêtre et martyr en
Angleterre (+ 1570)
Né dans le Lincolnshire,
il étudia au collège Corpus Christi d'Oxford et fut recteur de Stubton.
Catholique convaincu, il prit part à la révolte menée par les catholiques du
Nord contre la reine Élisabeth Ière (1558-1603). Capturé après l'échec de cette
rébellion, il lui fut offert la liberté s'il abjurait sa foi, il refusa et fut
pendu au château de Durham.
À Durham en Angleterre,
l'an 1570, le bienheureux Thomas Plumtree, prêtre et martyr, qui, sous le règne
d'Élisabeth Ière, fut condamné à mort pour avoir célébré la messe en public.
Amené devant la potence, il déclara avec force préférer la corde à la vie sauve
en reniant la foi catholique.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/11326/Bienheureux-Thomas-Plumtree.html
Bienheureux Thomas
Plumtree, martyr
Né dans le Lincolnshire,
il étudia au collège Corpus Christi d'Oxford et fut recteur de Stubton. Sous le
règne d’Élisabeth Ière, Il fut condamné à mort pour avoir célébré la messe en
public. Amené devant la potence, il déclara avec force préférer la corde à la
vie sauve en reniant la foi catholique. Il fut donc pendu au château de Durham
en 1570.
Also
known as
Pastor Rebel
1
December as one of the Martyrs
of Oxford University
Profile
Began studies
at Corpus Christi College, Oxford,
England
in 1543.
Priest.
Rector
of Stubton, Lincolnshire, England
in 1546.
He resigned his prebend
and became chaplain
to northern insurgents in the Catholic Rising of the North against the
repressions of Queen
Elizabeth
I, refusing to take the oath acknowledging her supremacy over the Church
in England.
Captured
when the revolt failed, he was arrested
at the altar,
and charged with celebrating Mass.
Offered his freedom if he would denouce Catholicism;
he declined. Martyr.
Born
in Lincolnshire, England
hanged,
drawn and quartered on 4 January
1570
in the market place at Durham
Castle, Durham, England
left to hang as a warning
to other Catholics,
he was finally buried
on 14
January 1570
9
December 1886
by Pope
Leo
XIII (cultus
confirmation)
Additional
Information
Book
of Saints, by the Monks
of Ramsgate
Mementoes
of the English Martyrs and Confessors, by Father
Henry Sebastian Bowden
Saints
of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein
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Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
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MLA
Citation
‘Blessed Thomas
Plumtree‘. CatholicSaints.Info. 4 December 2020. Web. 11 October 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-thomas-plumtree/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-thomas-plumtree/
Book of Saints –
Thomas Plumtree
Article
(Blessed)
Martyr
(January
4) (16th
century) A priest
of the North of England
ordained
in the reign of Queen
Mary, who acted as Chaplain to the insurgents in the famous rising under the
Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland. He was offered his life on condition
of his turning Protestant; and his courage in refusing makes his execution
at Durham (A.D. 1570)
to be rightly styled a martyrdom.
His Christian
name is sometimes given as William.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Thomas Plumtree”. Book of Saints, 1921.
CatholicSaints.Info. 27 December 2016. Web. 11 October 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-thomas-plumtree/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-thomas-plumtree/
Bl. Thomas Plumtree
Feastday: January 4
Death: 1570
English martyr. Born in
Lincolnshire, he studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was rector
of Stubton. A dedicated Catholic, he took part in the uprising launched by
northern Catholics, the Rising of the North against Queen Elizabeth I
(r. 1558-1603), but was captured as the revolt failed completely. He was
offered his freedom if he abjured the faith and he
refused. He was hanged in Durham
Castle.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=2314
Saints of
the Day – Blessed Thomas Plumtree
Article
Died 1570; beatified in
1886. Thomas was a native of Lincolnshire, England, who was educated at Corpus
Christi College at Oxford. He became rector of Stubton. He was chaplain to
insurgents of the North. He was condemned to death because he was caught celebrating
the sacrifice of the Mass. Before being executed in the market- place at
Durham, he was offered his life if he would become a Protestant (Benedictines,
Encyclopedia).
MLA
Citation
Katherine I Rabenstein. Saints of the Day, 1998.
CatholicSaints.Info. 4 December 2020. Web. 11 October 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saints-of-the-day-blessed-thomas-plumtree/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saints-of-the-day-blessed-thomas-plumtree/
Mementoes
of the English Martyrs and Confessors – Blessed Thomas Plumtree, Priest, 1572
Article
Born in the diocese of
Lincoln, a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1546, he was made
Rector of Stubton in his native county. He resigned his benefice on the change
of religion under Elizabeth, and became a school master at Lincoln, but was obliged
to resign the post on account of his faith. But it is as chief chaplain and
priest of the army of the Rising that he won the martyr’s palm. His voice seems
to have been like the Baptist’s and to have stirred high and low alike. His
call to abandon heresy and to rally to the standard of the faith ran through
the northern counties, and hundreds came in response to his summons. He appears
to have been celebrant of the Mass in Durham Cathedral immediately preceding
Father Holmes’ sermon and the public Absolution which followed. On his capture
after the failure of the Rising, he was singled out as a notable example of the
priests who had officiated. On the gibbet in the market-place at Durham he was
offered his life if he would embrace heresy, but he refused, and dying to this
world received eternal life from Christ. He suffered 4 January 1572, and was
buried in the market-place.
MLA
Citation
Father Henry Sebastian
Bowden. “Blessed Thomas Plumtree, Preacher, 1572”. Mementoes
of the English Martyrs and Confessors, 1910. CatholicSaints.Info.
21 April 2019. Web. 4 January 2020.
<https://catholicsaints.info/mementoes-of-the-english-martyrs-and-confessors-blessed-thomas-plumtree-preacher-1572/>
Menology
of England and Wales – Blessed Thomas Plumtree, Martyr, c.1569-1570
Article
The
Blessed Thomas Plumtree was a man of learning and of holy life who had been
ordained priest in the reign of Queen Mary. On occasion of the famous Rising in
the North, under the conduct of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland,
Plumtree attached himself to the insurgents, became their chaplain and
preacher, and publicly celebrated Mass for them in the church of Durham
College. It was on this charge that he was tried and condemned to death; but as
his life was offered him on the scaffold if he would renounce the Catholic
Faith and adopt the new religion, it was in truth for this holy cause that he
died. When urged to comply, he firmly refused any such compromise, and declared
that he had no wish to live in this world, if he were to die to God. He was
executed in the Market Place at Durham, and buried in the Church of Saint
Nicholas. There is some uncertainty as to the Christian name of this Martyr, as
he is sometimes called Thomas and sometimes William; nor is it clear whether or
not he is the same with Plumtree, a schoolmaster of Lincolnshire, who suffered
for the Faith. With the sanction of Pope Gregory XII, the Blessed Thomas was
represented on the walls of the ancient church of the English College in Rome;
and with the approbation of Leo XIII, the Sacred Congregation of Rites, by a
Decree published 29th of December, 1886, declared him entitled to the honours
of the Blessed.
MLA Citation
Father
Richard Stanton. “Blessed Thomas Plumtree, Martyr, c.1569-1570”. Menology of England and Wales, 1887.CatholicSaints.Info.
15 April 2015. Web. 4 January 2020.
<https://catholicsaints.info/menology-of-england-and-wales-blessed-thomas-plumtree-martyr-c-1569-1570/>
Blessed
Thomas Plumtree, 1570 Martyr
Blessed
Thomas Plumtree, formerly of Corpus Christi College at Oxford, served as
chaplain to the Northern Rising of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland and
Charles Neville, Earl of Westmoreland. He officiated at the Mass in Durham
Cathedral on December 4, at which clergy and people who had conformed to the
new religion were reconciled to the old faith. With the establishment of the
Church of England at the beginning of Elizabeth I's reign, Father Plumtree had
been forced first from his rectorship at Stubton and then from his role as
schoolmaster by the requirements of the Oath of Supremacy, etc. He was charged
with having said Mass and offered freedom if he renounced his Catholicism, on
the scaffold in the Durham
Castlemarketplace!--which he refused. Pope Leo XIII declared him a martyr
and beatified him in 1886. The Catholic Church of St. Cuthbert in Durhammentions him
in the history of their church.
For
more information about the Northern Rising, see my
review of a recent study of the rebellion.
SOURCE
: http://supremacyandsurvival.blogspot.com/2012/01/blessed-thomas-plumtree-1570-martyr.html
On
this day: Bl. Thomas Plumtree, Jan 4, 2011
On
this day in 1570, Thomas Plumtree was hanged in the market place at Durham for
his role as Preacher to the Rebels of 1569.
Thomas
Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Charles Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, led
the Rising of the North against Queen Elizabeth with the intention of deposing
her and replacing her with Mary, Queen of Scots. Thomas Plumtree joined them as
their chaplain. He officiated at the Mass in Durham Cathedral on December 4, at
which clergy and people who had conformed to the new religion were reconciled
to the old faith.
--See Lives
of the English Martyrs Declared Blessed by Pope Leo XIII. in 1886 and
1895, Written by Fathers of the Oratory, of the Secular Clergy and of
the Society of Jesus, Completed and Edited by Dom Bede Camm, O.S.B., Longmans,
Green and Co., 1914.
The
rebellion inspired ballads, including one in which Thomas Plumtree is
mentioned:
Among
manye newes reported of late,
As
touching the Rebelles their wicked estate,
Yet
Syr Thomas Plomtrie, their preacher they saie,
Hath
made the north countrie to crie well a daye,
Well
a daye, well a daye, well a daye, woe is mee,
Syr
Thomas Plomtrie is hanged on a tree.
--Quoted
in Memorials
of the Rebellion of 1569, by Sir Cuthbert Sharp, London, 1810.
This
youtube gives some background information about The Northern Rebellion
of 1569 and the Queen's savage punishment of 700 participants.
Thomas
Plumtree, Priest and Martyr, was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886.
--A
Menology of England and Wales; or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and
English Saints, Arranged According to the Calendar: Together with the Martyrs
of the 16th and 17th Centuries, by Richard Stanton, Priest of The
Oratory, London, Burns & Oates, 1887.
For
an unfavorable review of Stanton's book and a skeptical opinion of the
beatification of the "alleged martyr", see The
Athenaeum of March 17, 1888, p. 336-7.
SOURCE
: https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/day-bl-thomas-plumtree
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† Durham, Inghilterra, 4
gennaio 1570
Martirologio
Romano: A Durham in Inghilterra, beato Tommaso Plumtree, sacerdote e
martire: condannato a morte, sotto la regina Elisabetta I, per la sua fedeltà
alla Chiesa cattolica, subì con coraggio il supplizio dell’impiccagione che,
dinanzi al patibolo, affermò di preferire alla vita.
Questo beato martire
inglese è noto in particolare per la sua coraggiosa testimonianza durante la
“Rivolta del Nord” del 1569, che puntava a detronizzare la regina protestante
Elisabetta I d’Inghilterra per sostituirla con la cattolica Maria Stuarda di
Scozia, sua cugina.
Assai poco sappiamo
dell’infanzia di Thomas Plumtree. Nel 1543 fu ammesso come studente alla Christ
Church di Oxford e, dopo la laurea, nel 1546 fu nominato rettore di Stubton,
nel nativo Lincolnshire. All’ascesa al trono di Elisabetta rinunciò alla sua
prebenda per evitare di dover prestare il giuramento previsto dal nuovo Atto di
Supremazia ed Uniformità, volto ad eliminare le contese religiose che
dividevano il paese. In realtà tale concordato, lungi dal ricondurre gli
inglesi all’unità, esasperò invece gli animi di entrambe le fazioni. Thomas,
divenuto maestro a Lincoln, scoprì che ai cattolici era proibito
l’insegnamento.
Si trasferì poi al nord e
divenne cappellano di Thomas Percy, conte di Northumbria. Questi e Charles
Neville, conte di Westmoreland, furono i principali organizzatori della Rivolta
del Nord del 1569. All’inizio la spinta rivoluzionaria da loro intrapresa era
forse non molto dettata da motivi religiosi, ma la loro azione fu presto
abbracciata da parecchi cattolici desiderosi di liberarsi al più presto dalla
nuova fede loro imposta. Nel corso della Rivolta furono distrutti i libri di
preghiera protestanti in una settantina di chiese dello Yorkshire ed in otto a
Durham.
In un’antica ballata
Plumtree viene definito “il Pastore dei Ribelli”, in riconoscimento all’impegno
profuso nel ricondurre il popolo alla fede dei padri. Durante la rivolta in
alcune chiese nel Yorkshire ed a Durham fu ripristinata la Messa cattolica.
Nella grande cattedrale la folla conveniva alle sacre funzioni e Plumtree
stesso celebrò la Messa del 4 dicembre, nella cui occasione il sacerdote
William Holmes riconciliò il clero ed il popolo con la Chiesa cattolica.
La fine di questa Rivolta
non mancò dall’essere seguita da sanguinose vendette: la regina ordinò
l’esecuzione di centinaia di persone che avevano appoggiato la ribellione, ma
purtroppo non si conosce con esattezza il numero dei condannati. Tra di loro
comunque vi fu Thomas Plumtree, giustiziato nella piazza di Durham il 4 gennaio
1570. Dieci giorni dopo avvenne la sua sepoltura, come annotato nei registri
della chiesa di San Nicola, intervallo forse dovuto alla prolungata esposizione
del suo cadavere quale monito per il popolo.
Thomas Plumtree fu
beatificato dal Leone XIII il 9 dicembre 1886 ed il suo amico Thomas Percy,
anch’egli morto martire, fu beatificato dal medesimo pontefice dieci anni dopo.
Autore: Fabio
Arduino
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/36290
Den salige Thomas
Plumtree ( -1570)
Minnedag:
4. februar
Den salige Thomas
Plumtree ble født i Lincolnshire. Han underviste i Oxford og ble rektor for
Stubton. Under oppstanden i Nord-England feiret han messen i Durham-katedralen,
og ble hårt straffet: Han ble «hanged, drawn and quartered» i Durham. Minnedag
4. februar.
Kilder:
Attwater/Cumming - Sist oppdatert: 1998-10-07 23:23
SOURCE : https://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/tplumtre
~ Martyrs of England and
Wales († 1535-1680) ~ (II) : http://newsaints.faithweb.com/martyrs/England02.htm
