Bienheureux Christophe
Robinson, prêtre et martyr
Né vers 1565 à Woodsite
en Angleterre, il fit ses études de théologie à Douai et à Reims. Ordonné
prêtre le 24 février 1592, il retourne en Angleterre où il est témoin du martyr
de saint John Boste dont il écrit le récit. Arrêté le 4 mars 1597, martyrisé,
la corde aurait cassé deux fois avant de le pendre à la troisième fois, en
1597.
Bienheureux Christophe
Robinson
Prêtre et martyr en
Angleterre (+ 1597)
Né vers 1565 à Woodsite
en Angleterre, il fit ses études de théologie à Douai et à Reims. Ordonné
prêtre le 24 février 1592, il retourne en Angleterre où il est témoin du
martyre de saint John Boste dont il écrit le récit. Arrêté le 4 mars 1597,
martyrisé, la corde aurait cassé deux fois avant de le pendre à la troisième
fois. Il a été béatifié le 22 novembre 1987 par Jean-Paul II.
Commémoraison du
bienheureux Christophe Robinson, prêtre et martyr, qui fut témoin du martyre de
saint Jean Boste,
et fut lui-même, sous la reine Élisabeth Ière, pour la seule cause de son
sacerdoce, mené au gibet, un jour non précisé de 1597.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/11540/Bienheureux-Christophe-Robinson.html
Ven. Christopher Robinson
Born at Woodside, near
Westward, Cumberland, date unknown;
executed at Carlisle,
19 Aug., 1598. He was admitted to the English College at Reims in
1589, and was ordained priest and
sent on the mission in 1592. Two years later he was a witness of
the condemnation and execution of
the venerable martyr John
Boste at Durham,
and wrote a very graphic account of this, which has been printed from a
seventeenth-century transcript in the first volume of the "Catholic Record
Society's Publications" (London, 1905), pp. 85-92. His labours seem to
have been mainly in Cumberland and Westmoreland; but nothing is known about
them. Eventually he was arrested and imprisoned at Carlisle,
where Bishop Robinson, who may have been a relative, did his best to persuade
him to save his life by conforming, under 27 Eliz., c. 2, for being a priest and
coming into the realm, suffered the last penalty with such cheerful constancy
that his death was the occasion of many conversions.
Wainewright, John.
"Ven. Christopher Robinson." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New
York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 30 Mar. 2015 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13099b.htm>.
Transcription. This
article was transcribed for New Advent by Christine J. Murray.
Ecclesiastical
approbation. Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2020 by Kevin
Knight. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13099b.htm
Blessed Christopher
Robinson, the Carlisle Martyr
Blessed Christopher
Robinson was executed at Carlisle on August 19, 1598. The model above reflects
the circumstances of his martyrdom, as the rope on which he was to be hung kept
breaking! According to this website:
Christopher Robinson is
on all the ancient lists of those martyred during the Reformation, but his life
is still little known. Nevertheless, his memory has never been effaced in
Cumberland, of which he is the only Catholic martyr. His death evidently made a deep impression especially
in his native Carlisle.
Christopher Robinson was
probably born at Woodside, near Carlisle, between 1565 and 1570. He was
admitted as a student with six others on 17 August 1590 at Douai as a student.
This college had been founded on 29 September 1568 by William Allen, a former
Oxford Professor and later Cardinal. The first four priests were sent to
England in 1574, and in the next ten years just over a hundred left the College
ordained for the English Mission. From 1568 to 1594 the College was re-settled beside the university of
Rheims and it was during this period that Christopher Robinson was a student of
the College.
He was at once entered
for theological studies and was given the tonsure and first Minor Orders on 18
August 1590. Such was the urgent need for priests that the College had been
granted a general dispensation to shorten the usual six-year course of
preparation for the priesthood. Christopher Robinson was given the remaining
Minor Orders, together with the subdiaconate and diaconate, on the last three
days of March 1591. On 24 February he was ordained to the priesthood by
Cardinal Philip Sega in his private chapel at Rheims. He departed for England
on 1 September 1592.
Cumberland and probably
part of Westmorland was to be his field of labour. In a list of 1596 he is
described by name as ‘dwelling for the most part at Woodside nigh Carlisle in
Cumberland’. The only house
known with certainty to have been visited and used by him was Johnby Hall, the
home of the Musgrave family, about six miles from Penrith, near Greystoke
Castle.
He would surely have
known John Boste, a native of Dufton, near Appleby, who was the most hunted
priest in the northern counties. He was eventually captured near Brancepeth,
County Durham, on 13 September 1593. Christopher Robinson heard of his capture
and, feeling sure no one would recognise him, rode over to attend his trial.
Afterwards he wrote a detailed account of the trial and death of John Boste. This is a unique, first hand evidence of a martyrdom,
hardly paralleled elsewhere.
He himself was arrested
three and a half years later on 4 March 1597. A letter by Fr. Henry Garnett SJ dated 7 April 1597
states:
‘One Robinson, a seminary
priest, was lately in a purchased gaol-delivery hanged at Carlisle. The rope
broke twice and the third time he rebuked the sheriff for cruelty saying that,
although he meant no way to yield but was glad of the combat, yet flesh and
blood were weak, and therefore he showed little humanity to torment a man for
so long. And when they took
order to put two ropes, then, said he, by this means I shall be longer a-dying,
but it is no matter, I am willing to suffer all.’
Although the indictment upon which Christopher
Robinson suffered is no longer to be found, there is abundant evidence that the
cause of his death was his priesthood.
There is also much evidence that his memory as a
martyr has been persistently held in honour in Carlisle, where Christopher
Robinson’s name is not only remembered but also invoked as a true martyr.
He was declared Blessed
by Pope John Paul II in 1987. Lancaster
Cathedral celebrates his martyrdom on the Feast of the Lancaster Martyrs,
August 7.
SOURCE : http://supremacyandsurvival.blogspot.ca/2012/08/blessed-christopher-robinson-carlisle.html
31
March on some calendars
22
November as one of the Martyrs
of England, Scotland, and Wales
29
October as one of the Martyrs
of Douai
Profile
Studied in Douai and Rheims, France beginning
in 1590. Ordained 24
February 1592.
Returned to England in
September 1592 to
covertly minister to oppressed Catholics in
the areas of Cumberland and Westmoreland. He witnessed the martyrdom of Saint John
Boste, and published an account of it. Arrested 4
March 1597 for
the crime of priesthood. Martyred for
his crime; the hanging rope broke twice, so they used two ropes on the third,
successful attempt. One of
the Martyrs of England, Scotland, and
Wales.
hanged on 19
August 1598 at
Carlisle, England
10
November 1986 by Pope John
Paul II (decree of martyrdom)
22
November 1987 by Pope John
Paul II
SOURCE : http://catholicsaints.info/blessed-christopher-robinson/
Beato Cristoforo Robinson Martire
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Visualizza la Scheda del Gruppo cui appartiene
Woodside, Inghilterra,
1568 circa - Carlisle, Inghilterra, 31 marzo 1598
Martirologio Romano: A Carlisle in Inghilterra, commemorazione del beato Cristoforo Robinson, sacerdote e martire, che fu testimone del martirio di san Giovanni Boste e infine, condotto al patibolo in un giorno imprecisato durante il regno di Elisabetta I sempre per il solo fatto di essere sacerdote, ricevette egli stesso la palma del martirio.
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/47980
Den salige Christopher
Robinson ( -1598)
Minnedag: 22.
november
En av Åttifem salige
martyrer fra England, Skottland og Wales
Den salige Christopher
Robinson ble født i Woodside i Carlisle i England. Han studerte i Reims og ble
presteviet der, og ble sendt på oppdrag til England i 1592. Etter at han ble
arrestert, engasjerte biskop Robinson av Carlisle ham i flere disputaser. Han
ble henrettet i Carlisle i 1598.
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 19. august.
Kilder:
Attwater/Cumming - Kompilasjon og oversettelse: p. Per Einar Odden -
Sist oppdatert: 1998-05-03 22:51
SOURCE : http://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/crobinso
