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
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/7468/Bienheureux-Philippe-Powel.html
Also
known as
Philip Morgan
Philip Powell
Philip Prosser
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
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
8 December
1929
by Pope
Pius XI
(decree of martyrdom)
15 December
1929
by Pope
Pius XI
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Bl. Philip Powell
Feastday: June 30
Birth: 1594
Death: 1646
Benedictine English
martyr. Born in the Gwent district, southeast Wales, or at Tralon, England, he
was educated in London and then entered the Benedictines in Douni in 1614.
Ordained in 1621, he was sent to assist the English mission and spent two
decades in the area of Devon, Somerset, and Cornwall before being arrested. He
also served as a chaplain in
the Civil War. Philip was executed at Tyburn by being hanged, drawn, and
quartered; he was beatified in
1929.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5321
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
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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
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