Bienheureux Jean Amias et Robert Dalby, martyrs
Marchand de tissu, originaire de Wakefield en
Angleterre, Jean Amias devenu veuf décida d'être prêtre catholique. Il étudia à
Reims et y fut ordonné en 1581. Il revint clandestinement en Angleterre, alors
que les prêtres catholiques étaient bannis du sol anglais. Il fut découvert,
arrêté, jeté en prison et condamné à mort. Il subit le martyre en 1589 à York
avec Robert Dalby, sous le règne d'Élisabeth Ière.
Robert Dalby, lui, était un ministre protestant, né à Hemingborough dans le
Yorkshire. Converti au catholicisme, il fit ses études à Reims et à Douai en
vue du sacerdoce et fut ordonné prêtre en 1588. Il retourna lui aussi en
Angleterre; au bout d'un an, il fut arrêté et, en tant que prêtre catholique,
fut pendu à York. Tous deux allèrent joyeux au gibet où ils devaient être
pendus.
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Bienheureux Jean Amias et Robert Dalby
Martyrs en Angleterre (+ 1589)
Marchand de tissu, originaire de Wakefield en
Angleterre, Jean Amias devenu veuf décida d'être prêtre catholique. Il étudia à
Reims et y fut ordonné en 1581. Il revint clandestinement en Angleterre, alors
que les prêtres catholiques étaient bannis du sol anglais. Il fut découvert,
arrêté, jeté en prison et condamné à mort. Il subit le martyre à York avec
Robert Dalby, sous le règne d'Élisabeth Ière.
Robert Dalby était un ministre protestant, né à
Hemingborough dans le Yorkshire. Converti au catholicisme, il fit ses études à Reims
et à Douai en vue du sacerdoce et fut ordonné prêtre en 1588. Il retourna lui
aussi en Angleterre; au bout d'un an, il fut arrêté et, en tant que prêtre
catholique, il fut pendu à York. Ils font partie des martyrs d'Angleterre et du
pays de Galles béatifiés en 1929.
À York en Angleterre, l’an 1589, les bienheureux Jean
Amias et Robert Dalby, prêtres et martyrs, qui furent condamnés à mort à cause
uniquement de leur qualité de prêtres, sous la reine Élisabeth Ière, et
allèrent joyeux au gibet où ils devaient être pendus.
Martyrologe romain
Blessed John Amias and Blessed Robert
Dalby
On March 16, 1589, these two priests suffered being
hung, drawn and quartered in York.
Robert Dalby was from Hemingbrough in the East Riding of Yorkshire and lived at
first as a Protestant minister. Becoming a Catholic, he entered the English
College at Rheims on 30 September 1586 to study for the priesthood. He was
ordained a priest at Châlons on 16 April 1588. It was on 25 August that year
that he set out for England. He was arrested almost immediately upon landing at
Scarborough on the Yorkshire coast and imprisoned in York Castle.
There is some doubt about the early life of Blessed John Amias. One story is
that he was indeed John Amias or Amyas, born at Wakefield in Yorkshire,
England, where he married and raised a family, exercising the trade of
cloth-merchant. On the death of his wife, he divided his property among his
children and left for the Continent to become a priest. There is also a
possibility that he was really William Anne (surname), youngest son of John and
Katherine Anne, of Frickley near Wakefield.
Regardless of his actual name, on 22 June 1580, a widower calling himself
"John Amias" entered the English College at Rheims to study for the
priesthood. He was ordained a priest in Rheim Cathedral on 25 March 1581. On 5
June of that year Amias set out for Paris and then England, as a missionary, in
the company of another priest, Edmund Sykes. Of his missionary life we know
little. Towards the end of 1588 he was seized at the house of a Mr. Murton at
Melling in Lancashire and imprisoned in York Castle.
Yorkshire, as I've commented before on this blog and in Supremacy and
Survival: How Catholics Endured the English Reformation, was one of those
districts of England where recusancy and Catholicism was particularly strong.
This History of York describes the Catholic Resistance during Elizabeth I's reign, providing some
details of the trouble the queen had in asserting her authority.
Blessed John Amias M (AC)
(also known as John Anne)
Born near Wakefield, England; died at York in 1589; beatified in 1929. Blessed
John began life as a clothier (or clothmonger) at Wakefield. He married, but on
his wife's death, studied for the priesthood at Rheims and was ordained in
1581. He was executed for his priesthood at York together with Blessed Robert
Dalby (Attwater2, Benedictines).
Blessed Robert Dalby MM (AC)
Born in Hemingborough, Yorkshire, England; died at York in 1589; beatified in
1929. Blessed Robert was a convert from the Protestant ministry and was
ordained a priest at Rheims in 1588. He was hanged for his priesthood with Father
John Amias (Attwater2, Benedictines).
Blessed John Amias
Born at Wakefield, West Riding, England
Died March 16, 1589 at Tyburn Gallows, York, England
Beatified 1929
Canonization Pending
John Anne was a married cloth merchant from Wakefield, England. When his wife
died in the 1570's, he sold his business and possessions, and distributed the
proceeds to his children. Then he left for the continent to enter the seminary
in Reims, France. He was ordained in 1581 and returned to his homeland, as to a
foreign mission.
Like many of those men who became priests during this perod, he assumed an
alias to protect his family, becoming known as John Amias. We don't know much
about him, other than the obvious fact that he loved his faith enough to take
tremendous risks for it, and ultimately to give his life. From 1581 until
sometime in late 1588 or early 1589, he served as an underground priest. He was
arrested at the home of a Mr. Murton, and charged with the crime of
"priesthood".
He was martyred on the Tyburn Gallows Tree along with Blessed Robert Dalby on
March 16th, 1589. It was said that he went to his death "merrily, as to a
feaste".
Blessed Robert Dalby
Born in Yorkshire, England
Died March 16, 1589 at Tyburn Gallows, York, England
Beatified 1929
Canonization Pending
We know very little about Blessed Robert Dalby, as well. He was a protestant
minister who converted to Catholicism, at a very dangerous time to do so. Upon
his conversion he traveled to France to study for the priesthood at Douai.
After his ordination in 1588, just one short year before his martyrdom, he
returned home as a missionary to Catholics underground. He was arrested for the
crime of being a priest, and was hung, drqawn and quartered alongside Blessed
John Amias.
Ven. John Amias
An English
Martyr; b. at Wakefield; d. at York,
16 March, 1589. He exercised the trade of a cloth-merchant in Wakefield until
the death of his wife, when he divided his property among his
children, and became a priest at Reims in
1581. Of his missionary life we know little;
he was arrested at the house of a Mr. Murton in Lancashire, taken to York,
and tried in company with two other martyrs, Dalby and Dibdale. Anthony
(Dean) Champney was present at their execution,
of which he has left an account in his history. Other accounts note that he
went to death "as joyfully as if to a feast". He was
declared Venerable in 1886.
Sources
CHALLONER; FOLEY, Records S.J., iii, 739;
POLLEN, Acts of English Martyrs (London, 1891), 331.
Ryan, Patrick W.F. "Ven. John
Amias." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert
Appleton Company, 1907. 15 Mar.
2015 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01428b.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for
New Advent by Vivek Gilbert John Fernandez. Dedicated to the Holy Catholic
Church in her defense of the Faith.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. March
1, 1907. 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.
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Beati Giovanni Amias e Roberto
Dalby Sacerdoti e martiri
† York, Inghilterra, 16 marzo
1589
Giovanni nacque presso Wakefield. Svolgeva la professione di
fabbricante di tessuti ma alla morte della sua sposa decise di studiare a Reims
per divenire sacerdote. Venne ordinato nel 1581 ma dopo pochi anni venne
giustiziato a York il 16 marzo 1589. Suo compagno di martirio fu Roberto Dalby.
Roberto nacque a Hemingborough
intorno alla metà del XVI secolo. Per un certo tempo fu ministro
protestante ma afflitto da una crisi religiosa arrivò fino al punto di tentare
di uccidersi con una coltellata. Un sacerdote cristiano lo soccorse e lo
confortò anche spiritualmente. Roberto
decise di studiare a Reims per divenire sacerdote e venne ordinato nel 1588.
Tornato in Patria venne arrestato a Scarborough e imprigionato e processato a
York. Andò incontro al martirio con il suo volto illumiminato di gioia.
Beatificati nel 1929 da Papa Pio XI.
Martirologio
Romano: A York in Inghilterra, beati Giovanni Amias e Roberto Dalby, sacerdoti
e martiri, che, sotto la regina Elisabetta I, furono condannati a morte per il
solo fatto di essere sacerdoti e si avviarono lieti all’impiccagione.
