samedi 21 mars 2015

Bienheureux THOMAS PILCHARD (PILCHER), prêtre et martyr, et GUILLAUME PIKE, laïc et martyr

The Dorset Martyrs memorial on Gallows Hill, Dorchester. The statue is by Elisabeth Frink. This memorial was erected in 1986 to commemorate all Dorset men and women who were martyred for their faith, particularly during the religious troubles of the 16th and 17th centuries.


Bienheureux Thomas Pilchard, prêtre et martyr

Homme doux et savant, il fut condamné à mort en raison de son sacerdoce, sous la reine Élisabeth Ière, et livré aux supplices du gibet, à Dorchester, en Angleterre l’an 1501. Avec lui on commémore aussi le bienheureux martyr Guillaume Pike, charpentier, qui fut pendu et éventré la même année, mais à un jour inconnu, pour s’être réconcilié avec l’Église romaine.

SOURCE : http://www.paroisse-saint-aygulf.fr/index.php/prieres-et-liturgie/saints-par-mois/icalrepeat.detail/2015/03/21/14031/-/bienheureux-thomas-pilchard-pretre-et-martyr

Bienheureux Thomas Pilchard et Guillaume Pike

Martyrs en Angleterre (+ 1591)

Guillaume Pike, charpentier, aurait été converti à la religion catholique par Thomas Pilchard, prêtre.

Ils ont été béatifiés en 1987

À Dorchester en Angleterre, l’an 1501, le bienheureux Thomas Pilchard, prêtre et martyr. Homme doux et savant, il fut condamné à mort en raison de son sacerdoce, sous la reine Élisabeth Ière, et livré aux supplices du gibet. Avec lui on commémore aussi le bienheureux martyr Guillaume Pike, charpentier, qui fut pendu et éventré la même année, mais à un jour inconnu, pour s’être réconcilié avec l’Église romaine.

Martyrologe romain

SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/10221/Bienheureux-Thomas-Pilchard-et-Guillaume-Pike.html

THOMAS PILCHARD

Prêtre, Martyr, Bienheureux

1557-1587

Thomas Pilchard naquit à Batlle, dans le Sussex, en Angleterre, en 1557.

En 1576 il entra au Collège d’Oxford pour y faire ses études et y obtint une maîtrise en 1579. L’année suivante il renonça à sa bourse et quitta Oxford et rejoint le continent. Il arriva à Reims — où se trouvait alors un important Collège Anglais — le 20 novembre 1581 et y poursuivit ses études ecclésiastiques. En mars 1583, il fut ordonné prêtre à Laon et renvoyé en mission en Angleterre, alors en prise à une des plus sanglantes persécutions anticatholiques de son histoire.

Peu après son arrivée il fut arrêté et, ce qui arrivait rarement, il fut banni de sa patrie, échappant ainsi à la peine capitale qui était alors en vigueur pour ce genre de “crime”. Mais son courage et son amour pour Dieu et pour son ministère, le firent revenir en Angleterre peu de temps après. Arrêté une nouvelle fois — en 1586 ou 1587 — il fut de nouveau emprisonné dans la maison d’arrêt de Dorchester, dans laquelle, en l’espace de quinze jours — entre sa condamnation et l’exécution de la peine — il convertit une trentaine de personnes.

Dans cette prison il fut victime des pires brimades et vexations de la part des bourreaux, que le jour de l’exécution il avait du mal à se tenir debout, s’évanouissant fréquemment.

 Lorsque la corde fut coupée — il était encore vivant — il resta debout sous l'échafaud, éventré.

En effet, le bourreau ayant mal fait son travail, il fallut que ce soit le martyr lui-même qui s’en débarrasse, selon les dires d’un témoin : « Le prêtre a soulevé lui-même et jeté devant lui ses propres entrailles, en criant le “Miserere mei” ».

Le Père Warford ajouta cet éloge sur le martyr : « Il n’y avait pas dans l’ouest de l’Angleterre un prêtre qui l’égale dans la vertu ».

Son exécution eut lieu le 21 mars 1586 ou 1587 — l’année exacte reste incertaine. Il avait alors 29 ou 30 ans.

Venerable Thomas Pilchard

(Or PILCHER).

Martyr, born at Battle, Sussex, 1557; died at Dorchester, 21 March 1586-7. He became a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, in 1576, and took the degree of M.A., in 1579, resigning his fellowship the following year. He arrived at Reims 20 November, 1581, and was ordained priest at Laon, March, 1583, and was sent on the mission. He was arrested soon after, and banished; but returned almost immediately. He was again arrested early in March, 1586-7, and imprisoned in Dorchester Gaol, and in the fortnight between committal to prison and condemnation converted thirty persons. He was so cruelly drawn upon the hurdle that he was fainting when he came to the place of execution. When the rope was cut, being still alive he stood erect under the scaffold. The executioner, a cook, carried out the sentence so clumsily that the victim, turning to the sheriff, exclaimed "Is this then your justice, Mr. Sheriff?" According to another account "the priest raised himself and putting out his hands cast forward his own bowels, crying 'Miserere mei'". Father Warford says: "There was not a priest in the whole West of England, who, to my knowledge, was his equal in virtue."

Wainewright, John. "Venerable Thomas Pilchard." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 21 Mar. 2015 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12084a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Lawrence Progel.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. June 1, 1911. 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/12084a.htm

Blessed Thomas Pilcher

Also known as

Thomas Pilchard

Memorial

21 March

29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai

22 November as one of the Martyrs of England, Scotland and Wales

1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University

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Studied at Balliol College, Oxford, EnglandConverted to CatholicismStudied at Douai College, RheimsFranceOrdained a priest at Laon, France in 1583. He then returned to England to minister to covert Catholics in Hampshire and Dorset. Arrested and condemned to death for the crime of being a priest.

Born

c.1557 in Battle, East Sussex, England

Died

hanged, drawn and quartered on 21 March 1587 in Dochester, Dorset, England

no official executioner could be found; a local butcher was hired to do the disemboweling, but stopped halfway when Thomas asked him, “Is this your justice?”

Venerated

10 November 1986 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II

Additional Information

Catholic Encyclopedia

Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors, by Father Henry Sebastian Bowden

books

A Calendar of the English Martyrs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate

Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

other sites in english

English Martyrs

Hagiography Circle

sitios en español

Martirologio Romano2001 edición

fonti in italiano

Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

“Blessed Thomas Pilcher“. CatholicSaints.Info. 3 February 2020. Web. 6 April 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-thomas-pilcher/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-thomas-pilcher/

Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors – Venerable Thomas Pilchard, Priest, 1587

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A fellow of Balliol, he was made priest at Rheims and returned to England in 1583. He was of most gentle, courteous manners and an indefatigable missioner. His work lay in the western counties, and when apprehended he was cast into Dorchester jail. There he converted many of his fellow-prisoners, and from all parts his counsel was sought. At length he was tried and sentenced to death. Sentences of this sort were, however, rare in Dorchester, and an executioner could hardly be found until at length a cook, or rather a butcher, was hired at a great cost. But after the rope was cut and the priest, being still alive, stood on his feet under the scaffold, the fellow held back struck with fear. At length, compelled by the officials to finish his work, he drove his knife, hardly knowing what he did, into the body of the priest, and leaving it there he again hung back horror-stricken amidst the groans of the spectators. This lasted so long that Mr. Pilchard, coming completely to himself, naked and horribly wounded, inclining his head to the sheriff, said: “Is this, then, your justice, Mr. sheriff?” At last he was brutally despatched. He suffered at Dorchester, 21 March 1587.

MLA Citation

Father Henry Sebastian Bowden. “Venerable Thomas Pilchard, Priest, 1587”. Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors1910. CatholicSaints.Info. 24 April 2019. Web. 6 April 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/mementoes-of-the-english-martyrs-and-confessors-venerable-thomas-pilchard-priest-1587/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/mementoes-of-the-english-martyrs-and-confessors-venerable-thomas-pilchard-priest-1587/

Blessed William Pike

Also known as

William Pikes

Memorial

21 March

22 November as one of the Martyrs of England, Scotland, and Wales

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Layman in the apostolic vicariate of England during a period of persecutions of CatholicsMartyr.

Born

in Dorset, England

Died

hanged on 22 December 1591 in Dorchester, Dorset, England

body dismembered and the pieces distributed as a warning to others

Venerated

10 November 1986 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II

Additional Information

Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors, by Father Henry Sebastian Bowden

books

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate

Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

other sites in english

Hagiography Circle

sitios en español

Martirologio Romano2001 edición

fonti in italiano

Martirologio Romano2005 edition

MLA Citation

“Blessed William Pike“. CatholicSaints.Info. 24 April 2019. Web. 6 April 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-william-pike/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-william-pike/

Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors – Venerable William Pikes, Layman, 1591

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He was born at Parley, near Christchurch, Hampshire, and became a joiner by trade in the town of Dorchester. He was put on his trial for having spoken in prison too freely in favour of the Catholic religion. The “bloody” question about the Pope’s supremacy was put to him, and he frankly confessed that he maintained the authority of the Roman See, and he was condemned to die a traitor’s death. When they asked him, as is their wont, whether to save his life and family he would recant, he boldly replied that it did not become a son of Mr. Pilchard to do so. “Did that traitor, then, pervert you?” asked the judge. “That holy priest of God and true martyr of Christ,” he replied, “taught me the truth of the Catholic Faith.” Asked when he first met him, “It was on a journey,” said he, “returning from this city.” He was hanged at Dorchester in 1591, and cut down alive. Being a very able, strong man, when the executioners came to throw him on the block to quarter him, he stood upon his feet, on which the sheriff’s men overmastering him threw him down and pinned his hands fast to the ground with their halberts, and so the butchery was performed.

MLA Citation

Father Henry Sebastian Bowden. “Venerable William Pikes, Layman, 1591”. Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors1910. CatholicSaints.Info. 24 April 2019. Web. 6 April 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/mementoes-of-the-english-martyrs-and-confessors-venerable-william-pikes-layman-1591/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/mementoes-of-the-english-martyrs-and-confessors-venerable-william-pikes-layman-1591/

Beati Tommaso Pilchard e Guglielmo Pike Martiri

21 marzo

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† Dorchester, Inghilterra, 21 marzo 1586

Martirologio Romano: A Dorchester in Inghilterra, beato Tommaso Pilchard, sacerdote e martire: uomo colto e mansueto, durante il regno di Elisabetta I fu consegnato al supplizio del patibolo a motivo del suo sacerdozio. Insieme a lui si commemora anche il beato Guglielmo Pike, martire, che, falegname, in una data sconosciuta, nello stesso luogo e sotto la stessa regina fu crudelmente fatto a brandelli per essersi riconciliato con la Chiesa Romana.

SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/Detailed/46360.html