samedi 28 mars 2015

Bienheureux CHRISTOPHER WHARTON, prêtre et martyr

York Castle in 1644, after Francis Place


Bienheureux Christophe Wharton, prêtre et martyr

Né dans le Yorkshire, il se rend à Reims en 1583 pour étudier la théologie et y est ordonné prêtre l'année suivante. Il continue ses études puis rentre en Angleterre. Il est arrêté en 1599 et fut livré aux supplices du gibet le 28 mars 1600 à York, sous la reine Élisabeth Ière.

SOURCE : http://www.paroisse-saint-aygulf.fr/index.php/prieres-et-liturgie/saints-par-mois/icalrepeat.detail/2015/03/28/14381/-/bienheureux-christophe-wharton-pretre-et-martyr

Bienheureux Christophe Wharton

Prêtre et martyr en Angleterre ( 1600)

Né dans le Yorkshire, il se rend à Reims en 1583 pour étudier la théologie et y est ordonné prêtre l'année suivante. Il continue ses études puis rentre en Angleterre avec Edouard Burden. Il est arrêté en 1599 et exécuté le 28 mars 1600. Il fut béatifié en 1987.

À York en Angleterre, l’an 1600, le bienheureux Christophe Wharton, prêtre et martyr. En raison de son sacerdoce, sous la reine Élisabeth Ière, il fut livré aux supplices du gibet.

Martyrologe romain

SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/11541/Bienheureux-Christophe-Wharton.html

Blessed Christopher Wharton


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Priest of the apostolic vicariate of EnglandMartyred in the persecutions of Elizabeth I.

Born

Died

Venerated

Beatified

Additional Information

MLA Citation

  • “Blessed Christopher Wharton“. CatholicSaints.Info. 3 February 2020. Web. 5 January 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-christopher-wharton/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-christopher-wharton/


Ven. Christopher Wharton

Born at Middleton, Yorkshire, before 1546; martyred at York, 28 March, 1600. He was the second son of Henry Wharton of Wharton and Agnes Warcop, and younger brother of Thomas, first Lord Wharton. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated M.A., 3 February, 1564, and afterwards became a fellow. In 1583 he entered the English College at Reims to study for the priesthood (28 July). He was ordained priest in the following year 31 March, but continued his studies after ordination till 1586, when on 21 May he left Reims in company with Ven. Edward Burden. No details of his missionary labours have been preserved; but at his trail Baron Savile, the judge, incidentally remarked that he had known him at Oxford some years after 1596. He was finally arrested in 1599 at the house of Eleanor Hunt, a widow, who was arrested with him and confined in York castle. There, with other Catholic prisoners, he was forcibly taken to hear Protestant sermons. He was brought to trial together with Mrs. Hunt at the Lent Assizes 1600, and both were condemned, the former for high treason, the latter for felony. Both refused life and liberty at the price of conformity, and the martyr suffered with great constancy, while Eleanor Hunt was allowed to linger in prison till she died. Dr. Worthington, writing of Ven. Christopher Wharton, specially commends his "humility, fervent charity, and other great virtues".

Sources

WORTHINGTON, A Relation of Sixteen Martyrs (Douai, 1601); Douay Diaries (London, 1878); CHALLONER, Memoirs of Missionary Priests (London,1741-42); MORRIS, Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers, III (London), 462.

Burton, Edwin. "Ven. Christopher Wharton." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 28 Mar. 2015 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15607c.htm>.

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Middleton, Inghilterra, 1540 circa – York, Scozia, 28 marzo 1600

Martirologio Romano: A York in Inghilterra, beato Cristoforo Wharton, sacerdote e martire, che per il suo sacerdozio fu consegnato al patibolo durante il regno di Elisabetta I.

SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/Detailed/47580.html