Bienheureux PHILIPPE POWELL, prêtre, moine bénédictin et martyr

Bienheureux Philippe Powel

Bénédictin martyr à Tyburn près de Londres (✝ 1646)

Bénédictin martyr à Tyburn près de Londres. Au moment de mourir par pendaison, il proclama avec fierté son appartenance à l'Église romaine. 

Béatifié par le pape Pie XI en 1929.

À Londres, en 1646, le bienheureux Philippe Powell, prêtre, moine bénédictin et martyr. D’origine galloise, capturé sur un navire parce qu’il était prêtre et qu’il gagnait l’Angleterre, il fut conduit à la potence à Tyburn, sous le roi Charles I.

Martyrologe romain

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Blessed Philip Powel

Also known as

• Philip Morgan
• Philip Powell
• Philip Prosser

Memorial

• 30 June

Profile

Son of Roger and Catherine Powel. Studied law in London, England. Seminarian in Douai, France. Joined the Benedictines at the monastery now known as Downside Abbey in Bath, England. Ordained in Douai in 1618. Returned to England in 1622 to minister to covert and oppressed Catholics. He worked in the area of Leighland, Somersetshire, sometimes using the aliases of Morgan or Prosser to avoid priest hunters, from 1624 until the Civil War broke out in 1645 when he removed to Devonshire. Served six months as chaplain to Catholic soldiers in Cornwall. While sailing to South Wales, his ship was captured on 22 February 1646. Father Philip was recognized and arrested for the crime of being a priest. Imprisoned in London in harsh conditions, he developed pleurisy. On 9 June 1646 he was tried and condemned for being a priest. Martyr.

Born

• 2 February 1594 in Tralon, Brecknockshire, England

Died

• hanged, drawn, and quartered on 30 June 1646 at Tyburn, London, England
• buried in the old churchyard at Moorfields, London
• some relics, including a crucifix he owned at his death, are enshrined at Downside Abbey, Bath, England

Venerated

• 8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

SOURCE : http://catholicsaints.info/blessed-philip-powel/

Ven. Philip Powel

(alias MORGAN, alias PROSSER)

Martyr, b. at Tralon, Brecknockshire, 2 Feb., 1594; d. at Tyburn 30 June, 1646. He was the son of Roger and Catherine Powel, and was brought up to the law by David Baker, afterwards Dom Augustine Baker, O.S.B. At the age of sixteen he became a student in the Temple, London, but went to Douai three or four years later, where he received the Benedictine habit in the monastery of St. Gregory (now Downside Abbey, Bath). In 1618 he was ordained priest and in 1622 left Douai for the English mission. About 1624 he went to reside with Mr. Poyntz of Leighland, Somersetshire, but, when the Civil War broke out, in 1645, retired to Devonshire, where he stayed for a few months with Mr. John Trevelyan of Yarnscombe and then with Mr. John Coffin of Parkham. He afterwards served for six months as chaplain to the Catholic soldiers in General Goring's army in Cornwall, and, when that force was disbanded, took ship for South Wales. The vessel was captured on 22 February, 1646; Father Powel was recognized and denounced as a priest. On 11 May he was ordered to London by the Earl of Warwick, and confined in St. Catherine's Gaol, Southwark, where the harsh treatment he received brought on a severe attack of pleurisy. His trial, which had been fixed for 30 May, did not take place till 9 June, at Westminster Hall. He was found guilty and was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. At the instance of the Common Council of London the head and quarters were not exposed, but were buried in the old churchyard at Moorfields. The martyr's crucifix, which had formerly belonged to Feckenham, last Abbot of Westminster, is preserved at Downside, with some of his hair and a cloth stained with his blood.

Sources

Relation du martyre de Philippe Powel, autrement dit le Père Morgan, Religieux Bénédictin (Paris, 1647); CHALLONER, Memoirs of Missionary Priests, II (London, 1742), 297; OLIVER, Collections Illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion in Cornwall, Devon, etc. (London, 1857), 20, 386; WELDON, ed. DOLAN, Chronological Note on the English Congregation of the Order of St. Benedict (Worcester, 1881), 186; STANTON, Menology of England and Wales (London, 1887), 295; Downside Review (London, 1882), I, 346-52; XII, 239-48; SPILLMANN, Geschichte der Katholikenverfolgung in England, 1535-1681, IV (Freiburg, 1905), 309-13.

Huddleston, Gilbert. "Ven. Philip Powel." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 30 Jun. 2017 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12330a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by WGKofron. With thanks to Fr. John Hilkert, Akron, Ohio.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. June 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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Beato Filippo Powell Sacerdote benedettino, martire

30 giugno

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Trallong, Inghilterra, 2 febbraio 1594 - Londra, Inghilterra, 30 giugno 1646

Martirologio Romano: A Londra in Inghilterra, beato Filippo Powell, sacerdote dell’Ordine di San Benedetto e martire, che, originario del Galles, arrestato su una nave durante il regno di Carlo I perché cercava di entrare in Inghilterra come sacerdote, fu condotto sul patibolo a Tyburn.

Il 22 giugno ed il 6 luglio la Chiesa commemora i santi John Fisher e Thomas More, celeberrimi martiri inglesi uccisi sotto il Re Enrico VIII per la loro fedeltà alla Chiesa cattolica. Il 30 giugno, invece, il festeggiato è il Beato Philip Powel, benedettino messo a morte durante il regno di Carlo I, vittima di quelle persecuzioni contro i cattolici perpetrate dopo lo scisma anglicano.

Appartenente ad un'antica famiglia gallese, nacque a Trallong nel Brecknockshire il 2 febbraio 1594. Ricevuta l’istruzione primaria nella scuola di Abergavenny, fu mandato all’età di sedici anni dai suoi genitori a studiare legge nel Tempio a Londra, sotto la guida del celebre avvocato David Baker, poi benedettino. Inviato dal suo maestro per affari in Fiandra, Powell venne quivi a contatto con i benedettini inglesi del monastero di San Gregorio a Douai. Sentendosi ben presto attratto dalla vita religiosa, chiese di essere ammesso nell'Ordine e nel 1614 entrò nel Collegio benedettino di Douai, dove nel 1618 ricevette l'ordinazione sacerdotale. Il 7 marzo 1622 lasciò il Collegio di Douai per le missioni inglesi, andando a risiedere a Londra ospite del Baker, che  dopo sedici mesi lo inviò ad abitare presso la famiglia cattolica dei Risdon a Bableigh. Dal 1624 per oltre venti anni fu cappellano a Leighland presso una figlia dei Risdon, esercitando il suo ministero tra la popolazione di quella contea. Nel 1645, allo scoppio della guerra civile, fece ritorno nel Devon, quindi fu per sei mesi cappellano nell'esercito del generale Goring in Cornovaglia, ma dopo la sua disfatta s'imbarcò per il Galles.

Venne però catturato con tutta la nave il 22 febbraio 1646 dal viceammiraglio Crowder. Identificato quale sacerdote, fu prigioniero a bordo per undici settimane, quindi condotto nel South-wark nelle prigioni di S. Caterina. Trasferito a Londra, si comportò sempre amabilmente con tutti, attirandosi le simpatie dei compagni di sventura. Venne condannato alla pena capitale e infine impiccato e squartato a Tyburn  il 30 giugno 1646.

E’ beato dal 15 dicembre 1929.

Autore: Fabio Arduino

SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/60030