London,
Oratorians' Church, Side Chapel, Altar of St. Thomas More, St. John Fisher
and the Martyrs of Tyburn Tree. By Rex Whistler (1938).
Photographie : Rabanus Flavus
Bienheureux Marc
Barkworth
Martyr en
Angleterre (+ 1601)
Marc Barkworth,
bénédictin, avec le père Roger Filcock, jésuite, il
fut traîné dans les rues de Tyburn. Les deux prêtres s'encouragèrent en priant
ensemble. Ils arrivèrent juste après l'éxécution d'Anne Line qui
avait été la pénitente du père Filcock.
Voir aussi:
- Biographies des six
saints et des seize bienheureux du collège de saint Alban, le
séminaire anglais de Valladolid. (en anglais)
À Londres, en 1061,
sainte Anne Line, veuve et martyre. Née de parents calvinistes, qui la
déshéritèrent et la chassèrent de chez eux quand elle devint catholique, elle
épousa Roger Line, qui mourut en exil à cause de la foi catholique. Après sa
mort, elle fournit un hébergement à des prêtres à Londres, et pour cela, fut
pendue à Tyburn, sous la reine Élisabeth Ière. Avec elle subirent le même
supplice les bienheureux prêtres et martyrs Marc Barkworth, bénédictin, et
Roger Felcock, de la Compagnie de Jésus, qui furent mis en pièces alors qu’ils
respiraient encore.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/705/Bienheureux-Marc-Barkworth.html
Bienheureux Mark
Barkworth
Bénédictin Anglais Martyr
Fête le 27 février
dans le Lincolnshire – †
Tyburn 1601
Autres graphies :
Mark (Marc) ou Lambert Barkworth
Mark ou Lambert Barkworth
naquit dans le Lincolnshire et fut élevé à Oxford. Après sa conversion, il fit
ses études sacerdotales à Rome et à Valladolid. Il fut reçu dans l’ordre
bénédictin à l’abbaye Notre-Dame d’Hirache, près d’Estelle, en Navarre espagnole.
Il fut le premier bénédictin qui, après la suppression des monastères anglais,
mourut à Tyburn.
SOURCE : http://www.martyretsaint.com/mark-barkworth/
Also
known as
George Barkworth
Mark Lambert
29 October as
one of the Martyrs
of Douai
1 December as
one of the Martyrs
of Oxford University
Profile
Described as a tall, burly
man, always cheerful, even in the sufferings of his later life. Studied at
Oxford University. Convert to Catholicism,
joining the Church at Douai, France in 1594. Studied at English
College, Rome, Italy starting
on 16
December 1596,
and then at the Royal College of Saint Alban in Valladolid, Spain.
While on the road to Spain he
had a vision; Saint Benedict
of Nursia appeared to him and told he would die a Benedictine and
a martyr. Ordained in 1599. Benedictine Oblate.
He returned to England with Saint Thomas
Garnet to minister to covert Catholics.
He was arrested,
spent several months in prison,
and was finally condemned for the crime of being a priest. Martyred with Blessed Roger
Filcock and Saint Anne
Line, the first Benedictine to die after
the suppression of their monasteries.
Born
c.1572 in
Lincolnshire, England
hanged,
drawn, and quartered on 27
February 1601 at
Tyburn, London, England
8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree
of martyrdom)
15
December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Additional
Information
Catholic
Encyclopedia, by Bede Camm
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
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
other
sites in english
The Royal
English College of St Alban
fonti
in italiano
nettsteder
i norsk
Readings
I am come here to die,
being a Catholic,
a priest,
and a religious man, belonging to the Order of Saint Benedict; it was by this
same order that England was converted. – Blessed Mark,
to the crowd gathered to watch his execution
Ah, sister, thou hast got
the start of us, but we will follow thee as quickly as we may. – Blessed Mark,
speaking at his execution to Saint Anne
Line who had just died
MLA
Citation
“Blessed Mark Barkworth“. CatholicSaints.Info.
17 January 2023. Web. 5 September 2026.
<http://catholicsaints.info/blessed-mark-barkworth/>
SOURCE : http://catholicsaints.info/blessed-mark-barkworth/
Ven. Mark Barkworth
(Alias LAMBERT.)
Priest and martyr,
born about 1572 in Lincolnshire; executed at Tyburn 27 February,
1601. He was educated at Oxford,
and converted to the Faith at Douai in
1594, by Father George, a Flemish Jesuit.
In 1596 Barkworth went to Rome and
thence to Valladolid. On his way to Spain he
is said to have had a vision of St. Benedict, who told him he
would die a martyr,
in the Benedictine habit.
Admitted to the English College, 16 December, 1596, he was ordained priest in
1599, and set out for the English Mission together with Ven.
Thomas Garnet. On his way he stayed at the Benedictine Abbey of
Hyrache in Navarre,
where his ardent wish to join the order was granted by his being made
an Oblate with the privilege of making profession at the
hour of death. After having escaped great peril at the hands of the heretics of La
Rochelle, he was arrested on reaching England and
thrown into Newgate, where he lay six months, and was then
transferred to Bridewell. Here he wrote an appeal to Cecil, signed
"George Barkworth". At his examinations he behaved with
extraordinary fearlessness and frank gaiety. Having been condemned he was
thrown into "Limbo", the horrible underground dungeon at Newgate,
where he remained "very cheerful" till his death.
Barkworth suffered at
Tyburn with Ven. Roger Filcock, S.J., and Ven.
Anne Lyne. It was the first Tuesday in Lent,
a bitterly cold day. He sang, on the way to Tyburn,
the Paschal Anthem: "Hæc dies quam, fecit Dominus exultemus
et lætemur in ea". On his arrival he kissed the
robe of Mrs. Lyne, who was already dead, saying: "Ah, sister, thou
hast got the start of us, but we will follow thee as quickly as we
may"; and told the people: "I am come here to die, being a Catholic,
a priest,
and a religious man, belonging to the Order of St.
Benedict; it was by this same order that England was converted".
He was tall and burly of figure, gay and cheerful in disposition. He suffered
in the Benedictine habit,
under which he wore a hair-shirt. It was noticed that his knees were,
like St. James', hardened by constant kneeling, and an apprentice in
the crowd picking up his legs, after the quartering, called out to them:
"Which of you Gospellers can show such a knee?"
Barkworth's devotion to the Benedictine
Order led to his suffering much from the hands of the superiors of the
Vallalodid College. These sufferings are probably much exaggerated, however, by
the anti-Jesuit writers Watson, Barneby, and Bell.
Sources
CAMM, A Benedictine
Martyr in England (London, 1897); CHALLONER, Memoirs (1750);
W.C., A Reply to Father Persons' Libel (1603); WATSON, Decacordon
of ten Quodlibet Questions (1602); KNOX, Douay Diaries (London,
1878).
Camm, Bede. "Ven.
Mark Barkworth." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert
Appleton Company, 1907. 27 Feb. 2017
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02296c.htm>.
Transcription. This
article was transcribed for New Advent by Bob Mathewson.
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/02296c.htm
Blessed Mark Barkworth
OSB
Blessed Mark Barkworth
OSB was born about 1572 at Searby in Lincolnshire. He studied for a time at
Oxford, though no record remains of his stay there. He was received into the
Catholic Church at Douai in 1593, by Father George, a Flemish Jesuit and
entered the College there with a view to the priesthood. He matriculated at
Douai University on 5 October 1594.
On account of an outbreak of the plague, in 1596 Barkworth was sent to Rome and
thence to Valladolid in Spain, where he entered the English College on 28
December 1596. On his way to Spain he is said to have had a vision of St
Benedict, who told him he would die a martyr, in the Benedictine habit. While
at Valladolid he make firmer contact with to the Benedictine Order. The
"Catholic Encyclopedia" notes that there are accounts that his
interest in the Benedictines resulted in suffering at the hands of the College
superiors, but the Encyclopedia expresses skepticism, suggesting anti-Jesuit
bias.
Barkworth was ordained priest at the English College some time before July
1599, when he set out for the English Mission together with Father Thomas
Garnet. On his way he stayed at the Benedictine Monastery of Hyrache in
Navarre, where his wish to join the order was granted by his being made an
Oblate with the privilege of making profession at the hour of death.
After having escaped from the hands of the Huguenots of La Rochelle, he was
arrested on reaching England and thrown into Newgate, where he was imprisoned
for six months, and was then transferred to Bridewell. There he wrote an appeal
to Robert Cecil, signed "George Barkworth". At his examinations he
was reported to behave with fearlessness and frank gaiety. Having been
condemned with a formal jury verdict, he was thrown into "Limbo", the
horrible underground dungeon at Newgate, where he is said to have remained
"very cheerful" till his death.
Father Barkworth sang, on the way to Tyburn, the Paschal Anthem: "Hæc dies
quam, fecit Dominus exultemus et lætemur in ea", and Father Filcock joined
him in the chant:
Hæc dies quam fecit Dominus; [This is the day which the Lord has made:]
exsultemus, et lætemur in ea. [let us be glad and rejoice in it.]
At Tyburn he told the people: "I am come here to die, being a Catholic, a
priest, and a religious man, belonging to the Order of St Benedict; it was by
this same order that England was converted."
He was said to be "a man of stature tall and well proportioned showing
strength, the hair of his head brown, his beard yellow, somewhat heavy
eyed". He was of a cheerful disposition. He suffered in the Benedictine
habit, under which he wore a hair-shirt. It was noticed that his knees were,
like St. James', hardened by constant kneeling, and an apprentice in the crowd
picking up his legs, after the quartering, called out: "Which of you
Gospellers can show such a knee?" Contrary to usual practice, the quarters
of the priests were not exposed but buried near the scaffold. They were later
retrieved by Catholics.
SOURCE : http://supremacyandsurvival.blogspot.ca/2016_02_01_archive.html
Beato Marco Barkworth Sacerdote
benedettino, martire
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Visualizza la Scheda del Gruppo cui appartiene
Searby, Regno Unito,
circa 1572 – Tyburn, Londra, 27 febbraio 1601
Mark Barkworth nacque nel
Lincolnshire, all’epoca della regina Elisabetta I, e frequentò l’università di
Oxford. Dopo essersi convertito al cattolicesimo, studiò a Roma e al Real
Collegio di Sant’Albano a Valladolid ed entrò nell’Ordine di San Benedetto come
Oblato. Condannato a morte, venne impiccato e squartato a Londra il 27 febbraio
1601, prima del suo compagno di prigionia, il gesuita padre Roger Filcock. È
stato beatificato da papa Pio IX il 15 dicembre 1929.
Martirologio Romano: A
Londra in Inghilterra, sant’Anna Line, vedova e martire, che, morto il marito
in esilio per la fede cattolica, procurò in questa città una casa ai sacerdoti
e per questo, sotto la regina Elisabetta I, a Tyburn fu impiccata. Insieme a
lei patirono anche i beati sacerdoti e martiri Marco Barkworth, dell’Ordine di
San Benedetto, e Ruggero Filcock, della Compagnia di Gesù, dilaniati con la
spada mentre erano ancora vivi.
Mark Barkworth nacque nel
1572 circa a Searby, nel Lincolnshire. Studiò per un periodo a Oxford,
anche se non rimangono notizie della sua permanenza lì. Venne accolto nella
Chiesa cattolica a Douai nel 1593 da parte di un gesuita fiammingo, padre
George, ed entrò nel Collegio locale, dove i candidati al sacerdozio inglesi
studiavano per tornare come missionari in patria.
A causa di un’epidemia di
peste, venne inviato a Roma nel 1596 e da lì al Real Collegio di Sant’Albano a
Valladolid, in Spagna, dove entrò il 28 dicembre 1596. Si racconta che, mentre
era in viaggio, ebbe una visione di san Benedetto da Norcia, che gli profetizzò
che sarebbe morto martire con l’abito benedettino.
Ordinato sacerdote nel
Collegio prima del luglio 1599, tornò come missionario in Inghilterra, insieme
a padre Thomas Garnet. Lungo il cammino soggiornò presso il monastero
benedettino di Hyrache in Navarra, dove il suo desiderio di aggregarsi
all’Ordine venne realizzato: divenne un Oblato benedettino, ottenendo il
privilegio di emettere la propria professione al momento della morte.
Sfuggito agli Ugonotti,
venne arrestato mentre raggiungeva il suo paese natale e gettato nel carcere di
Newgate, dove rimase per sei mesi; di lì venne trasferito alla prigione di
Bridewell. In quel luogo, scrisse un appello a Robert Cecil, firmandosi
«George Barkworth».
Durante gli
interrogatori, si comportò in maniera coraggiosa e lieta. Condannato con un
verdetto formale, venne imprigionato nel cosiddetto “Limbo” di Newgate, ossia
la prigione sotterranea. Anche lì rimase allegro, fino al momento
dell’esecuzione. In prigione incontrò il gesuita Roger Filcock, che era stato
suo compagno di studi a Valladolid.
La loro esecuzione fu
fissata per il 27 febbraio 1601 a Londra, nel famigerato Tyburn. Lungo la
strada, Barkworth intonò in latino il Salmo del giorno di Pasqua: «Questo è il
giorno che ha fatto il Signore: rallegriamoci in esso ed esultiamo»; padre
Filcock lo seguì nel canto.
Quando arrivò al
patibolo, omaggiò insieme al gesuita il coraggio di Anne Line, un tempo sua
penitente, martirizzata perché aveva accolto numerosi sacerdoti in appositi
rifugi. Poi, rivolgendosi alla folla, disse: «Sono venuto qui per morire da
cattolico, sacerdote e religioso, appartenente all’Ordine di San Benedetto; fu
per mezzo di questo stesso ordine che l’Inghilterra venne convertita». Addosso
portava l’abito benedettino, sotto il quale aveva un cilicio in forma di
camicia di pelo.
Quando il suo corpo venne
preso e squartato, si notò che le sue ginocchia, al pari di quelle di san
Giacomo il Minore, erano incallite per l’assidua preghiera. Un apprendista
presente tra la folla, nel prendere in mano le gambe dopo lo squartamento,
gridò: «Chi di voi predicatori può mostrare un ginocchio simile?». Contrariamente
all’uso consueto, i resti dei sacerdoti non vennero esposti, bensì seppelliti
presso il patibolo; più tardi, alcuni cattolici li prelevarono.
L’8 dicembre 1929 venne
promulgato il decreto sul martirio di padre Mark Barkworth e di altri
centocinque martiri inglesi, seguito dalla beatificazione una settimana dopo,
ad opera di papa Pio XI, il 15 dicembre.
Autore: Emilia
Flocchini
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/96390
Den salige Roger Filcock
(~1570 - 1600)
Minnedag:
22. november
En av Åttifem salige
martyrer fra England, Skottland og Wales
Den salige Roger Filcock
ble født ca 1570 i Sandwich i Kent i England. Han studerte ved de engelske
kollegiene i Reims i Frankrike og Valladolid i Spania, hvor han ble presteviet
som sekularprest. Han ble sendt på oppdrag til England i 1598. Han arbeidet i
to år og ble opptatt i Jesu Selskap av p. Garnet. Han
skulle reise til Flandern for å bli novise, men ble fengslet i Newgate og
henrettet for høyforræderi i Tyburn i 1600 ved å bli hengt, buksprettet og
partert, «hanged, drawn and quartered», ca 30 år gammel.
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 27. februar.
Kilder:
Attwater/Cumming - Kompilasjon og oversettelse: p. Per Einar Odden -
Sist oppdatert: 1998-05-03 22:57
SOURCE : https://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/rfilcock
~ Martyrs of England and
Wales († 1535-1680) ~ (IV) : http://newsaints.faithweb.com/martyrs/England04.htm#Filcock
