mercredi 4 mars 2015

Bienheureux CHRISTOPHER BALES, prêtre, ALEXANDER BLAKE et NICHOLAS HORNER, martyrs

A depiction of people getting hanged, drawn and quartered.

Bienheureux Christophe Bales, prêtre et martyr

Né à Coniscliffe dans le Dutham en Angleterre, il fit ses études au séminaire anglais de Douai. Passé en Angleterre en 1588, identifié comme prêtre catholique, il fut pendu deux ans plus tard, en 1590, pour sa fidélité à l'Église romaine sous la reine Elisabeth Ière.

SOURCE : http://www.paroisse-saint-aygulf.fr/index.php/prieres-et-liturgie/saints-par-mois/icalrepeat.detail/2015/03/04/13231/-/bienheureux-christophe-bales-pretre-et-martyr

Bienheureux Christophe Bales

Martyrisé pour sa fidélité à l'Église romaine (+1590)

Né à Coniscliffe dans le Dutham en Angleterre, il fit ses études au séminaire anglais de Douai. Passé en Angleterre en 1588, il fut martyrisé deux ans plus tard pour sa fidélité à l'Eglise romaine. Il fut béatifié en 1929. 

À Londres, en 1590, les bienheureux martyrs Christophe Bales, prêtre, Alexandre Blake et Nicolas Horner, martyrs, qui, sous la reine Élisabeth Ière, furent soumis aux supplices du gibet à cause de la foi catholique.

Martyrologe romain

SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/5975/Bienheureux-Christophe-Bales.html

Ven. Christopher Bales
Priest and martyr, b. at Coniscliffe near Darlington, County Durham, England, about 1564; executed 4 March, 1590. He entered the English College at Rome, 1 October, 1583, but owing to ill-health was sent to the College at Reims, where he was ordained 28 March, 1587. Sent to England 2 November, 1588, he was soon arrested, racked, and tortured by Topcliffe, and hung up by the hands for twenty-four hours at a time; he bore all most patiently. At length he was tried and condemned for high treason, on the charge of having been ordained beyond seas and coming to England to exercise his office. He asked Judge Anderson whether St. Augustine, Apostle of the English, was also a traitor. The judge said no, but that the act had since been made treason by law. He suffered 4 March, 1590, "about Easter", in Fleet Street opposite Fetter Lane. On the gibbet was set a placard: "For treason and favouring foreign invasion". He spoke to the people from the ladder, showing them that his only "treason" was his priesthood. On the same day Venerable Nicholas Horner suffered in Smithfield for having made Bales a jerkin, and Venerable Alexander Blake in Gray's Inn Lane for lodging him in his house

Sources

Bridgewater, Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia (Trier, 1589); Challoner, Mémoires; Pollen, Acts of English Martyrs (London, 1891); Northern Catholic Calendar; Knox, Douay Diaries (London, 1878); Morris, Catholics of York under Elizabeth (London, 1891); Foley, Records S. J.; Roman Diary (London, 1880).

Camm, Bede. "Ven. Christopher Bales." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 18 Dec. 2020 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02222a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Susan Birkenseer.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., 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/02222a.htm

Blessed Christopher Bales

Also known as
  • Christopher Bayles
  • Christopher Evers
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Educated at Rome, Italy and Rheims, France. Ordained at Douai, France in 1587. Returned to England in 1588 to minister to covert Catholics, using the name Christopher Evers. Arrested and martyred for the crime of priesthood.
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SOURCE : http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-christopher-bales/

Dictionary of National Biography – Christopher Bales


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Bales or Bayles, alias Evers, Christopher (executed 1589-90), priest, was a native of Cunsley, in the diocese of Durham, and studied in the English colleges at Rome and Rheims. From the latter he was sent on the English mission in 1588. Having been apprehended soon afterwards, he was tried and convicted under the statute of 27 Eliz. for taking priest’s orders beyond the seas, and coming into England to exercise his sacerdotal functions. He was drawn to a gallows at the end of Fetter Lane, in Fleet Street, London, and hanged, disembowelled, and quartered, 4 March 1589-90. Two laymen suffered the same day for relieving and entertaining him, viz. Nicholas Horner in Smithfield, and Alexander Blage in Gray’s Inn Lane.

MLA Citation

  • Thompson Cooper. “Christopher Bales”. Dictionary of National Biography. CatholicSaints.Info. 9 June 2013. Web. 18 December 2020. <https://catholicsaints.info/dictionary-of-national-biography-christopher-bales/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/dictionary-of-national-biography-christopher-bales/

Blessed Alexander Blake


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Layman. Condemned for harboring priests. Martyr.

Born

Died

Venerated

Beatified

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-alexander-blake/

Blessed Nicholas Horner


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Lifelong layman; tailor by trade. An informal but enthusiastic evangelist for Catholicism. While in London, England seeking treatment for a leg wound, he was imprisoned in Newgate for the crime of harbouring priests; the chains and lack of medical care led to amputation of the injured leg. His friends petitioned for his release, which was granted, and Nicholas resumed work as a tailor at Smithfield, London. Arrested again for harbouring priests, he was thrown into Bridewell prison, tried for the crime of making clothes for a priest, and sentenced to death. Martyr.

Born

Died

Venerated

Beatified

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-nicholas-horner/

Nicholas Horner

Layman and martyr, born at Grantley, Yorkshire, England, date of birth unknown; died at Smithfield, 4 March, 1590. He appears to have been following the calling of a tailor in London, when he was arrested on the charge of harbouring Catholic priests. He was confined for a long time in a damp and noisome cell, where he contracted blood poisoning in one leg, which it became necessary to amputate. It is said that during this operation Horner was favoured with a vision, which acted as an anodyne to his sufferings. He was afterwards liberated, but when he was again found to be harbouring priests he was convicted of felony, and as he refused to conform to the public worship of the Church by law established, was condemned. On the eve of his execution, he had a vision of a crown of glory hanging over his head, which filled him with courage to face the ordeal of the next day. The story of this vision was told by him to a friend, who in turn transmitted it by letter to Father Robert Southwell S.J., 18 March, 1590. Horner was hanged, drawn and quartered because he had relieved and assisted Christopher Bales, seminary priest and martyr, b. at Cunsley, Durham, 1564, d. on the Scaffold at Fetter Lane, London 4 March, 1590. Father Bales was cruelly tortured in prison, although he was a consumptive; and was condemned merely for being a priest.

Sources

GILLOW, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath., s.v.; CHALLONER, Memoirs, (Edinburgh, 1878), I, 166, 169, 218; RIBADENEIRA, Appendix Schismatis Anglicani (1610), 25; MORRIS, Troubles, 3rd series.

Brown, C.F. Wemyss. "Nicholas Horner." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 18 Dec. 2020 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07471a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Joseph P. Thomas. Dedicated to Fr. Joseph Madathikandam M.C.B.S.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. June 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/07471a.htm

Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors – Venerable Nicholas Horner, Layman, 1590


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A native of York, a tailor by trade and a zealous Catholic, he endeavoured, according to his ability, to persuade others to embrace the faith. Having come up to London to be cured of a wound in his leg, he was committed to Newgate for harbouring priests. There the heavy fetter on his leg and the deprivation of all medical aid rendered an amputation necessary. During the operation he sat upon a form, unbound, in silence, a priest the while (Hewett, who was afterwards himself a Martyr) holding his head, and he was further comforted by such a vivid apprehension of Christ bearing His Cross that he seemed to see it on His shoulders. Freed at the earnest suit of his friends, he worked at his trade at some lodgings at Smithfield. Again cast into Bridewell for harbouring priests, he was hung up by the wrists till he nearly died. At length condemned solely for making a jerkin for a priest, he was hanged in front of his lodging in Smithfield, 3 March 1590. On the night before his execution, finding him self overwhelmed with anguish, he betook him self to prayer, and perceived a bright crown of glory hanging over his head. Assured of its reality, he said: “O Lord, Thy will be mine,” and died with extraordinary signs of joy.

MLA Citation

  • Father Henry Sebastian Bowden. “Venerable Nicholas Horner, Layman, 1590”. Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors, 1910. CatholicSaints.Info. 22 April 2019. Web. 18 December 2020. <https://catholicsaints.info/mementoes-of-the-english-martyrs-and-confessors-venerable-nicholas-horner-layman-1590/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/mementoes-of-the-english-martyrs-and-confessors-venerable-nicholas-horner-layman-1590/

Beati Cristoforo Bales, Alessandro Blake e Nicola Horner Martiri

4 marzo

† Londra, Inghilterra, 4 marzo 1590

Il sacerdote Christopher Bales fu beatificato nel 1929, mentre i laici Nicholas Horner ed Alexander Blake vennero beatificati nel 1987.

Martirologio Romano: A Londra in Inghilterra, beati Cristoforo Bales, sacerdote, Alessandro Blake e Nicola Horner, martiri, che durante la persecuzione al tempo della regina Elisabetta I ricevettero insieme la corona della gloria.

SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/Detailed/43880.html

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