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.
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
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/11515/Bienheureux-Jean-Amias-et-Robert-Dalby.html
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.
SOURCE : http://supremacyandsurvival.blogspot.ca/2012/03/blessed-john-amias-and-blessed-robert.html
Bl. John Amias
Feastday: March 16
Death: 1589
Also called John Anne,
a martyr in
England. He was born and married near Wakefield where he became a cloth dealer.
When his wife died, he went to Reims and
was ordained a Priest in
1581. Returning to England, he worked until his arrest by English authorities.
Hanged, drawn, and quartered at York with Blessed Robert Dalby, he was beatified in 1929.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3931
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.
SOURCE : http://www.avemariarosaries.com/todays_saint.php?md=0316
Also
known as
John Anne
29 October as
one of the Martyrs
of Douai
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Married layman cloth merchant in
Wakefield, England. Father of
several children.
A widower,
he divided his property among his children,
and studied for
the priesthood in Rheims, France. Ordained in 1581.
He returned to England as
a home missioner to covert Catholics. Arrested at
the home of a Mr Murton in Lancashire for the crime of priesthood. Martyred with Blessed Robert
Dalby.
Born
at Wakefield, West
Riding, England
hanged,
drawn, and quartered on 16 March 1589 at York, England
9 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII
8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree
of martyrdom)
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Additional
Information
Saints
of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein
books
A
Calendar of the English Martyrs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
other
sites in english
images
sitios
en español
Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición
fonti
in italiano
Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
MLA
Citation
‘Blessed John
Amias‘. CatholicSaints.Info. 20 March 2023. Web. 17 March 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-john-amias/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-john-amias/
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).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0316.shtml
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.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01428b.htm
29 October as
one of the Martyrs
of Douai
Profile
Protestant
minister. Convert to Catholicism. Studied in Douai and Rheims in France. Ordained in 1588,
he returned to England to
minister to covert Catholics. Arrested for
the crime of priesthood in 1589,
he was martyred with Blessed John
Amias.
Born
at Hemingborough,
Yorkshire, England
hanged,
drawn, and quartered on 16 March 1589 at York, England
9 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII
8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree
of martyrdom)
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Additional
Information
Mementoes
of the English Martyrs and Confessors, by Father Henry
Sebastian Bowden
Saints
of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein
books
A
Calendar of the English Martyrs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
other
sites in english
images
sitios
en español
Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición
fonti
in italiano
Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
MLA
Citation
‘Blessed Robert
Dalby‘. CatholicSaints.Info. 16 November 2023. Web. 17 March 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-robert-dalby/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-robert-dalby/
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).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0316.shtml
Mementoes
of the English Martyrs and Confessors – Venerable Robert Daly, Priest, 1589
Article
Born in the county of
Durham and brought up a Protestant, he was a minister of the Established
religion when a Catholic chanced to admonish him on the danger of his state.
Reflecting on this and on his past life he fell into such despair that he tried
to kill himself with a knife. The stroke, however, was not mortal, and as he
fell a boy who was by called for help and brought the neighbours to his
assistance. During his process of recovery he was brought by a priest to a
repentant state of mind and was reconciled. He now went to Rheims, was ordained
priest, and, returning to England, was arrested at Scarborough, where he landed
in 1589. At his trial he answered the judges with much boldness, and openly
confessed himself a priest, and the judges declared that they found him guilty
on his own admission. He was led to execution with John Amias, also a secular
priest, and both went with much joy, and, having kissed and blessed the hurdle,
they lay down on it and would not suffer themselves to be bound. This cheerful
courage they maintained to the end. Thus Father Dalby washed out with his own
blood the stains of his former life. They suffered at Gloucester, 16 March
1589.
MLA
Citation
Father Henry Sebastian
Bowden. “Venerable Robert Daly, Priest, 1589”. Mementoes
of the English Martyrs and Confessors, 1910. CatholicSaints.Info.
22 April 2019. Web. 17 March 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/mementoes-of-the-english-martyrs-and-confessors-venerable-robert-daly-priest-1589/>
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† 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.
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/45640
~ Martyrs of England and
Wales († 1535-1680) ~ (III) : http://newsaints.faithweb.com/martyrs/England03.htm#Amias
