"There may never be a clearer picture of the Isle
of Wight from space." Caption by astronaut Chris
Hadfield on board the International Space Station.
Bienheureux Guillaume Marsden et Robert Anderton, martyrs
Natifs du Lancashire, ils furent élevés au collège Sainte-Marie à Oxford. Après des études sacerdotales à Reims ils furent ordonnés en 1585. Un peu plus tard, ils furent exécutés dans l'île de Wight en 1586.
Bienheureux Robert Anderton et Guillaume Marsden
Prêtres et martyrs en Angleterre (+ 1586)
Nés en Angleterre, ils font leurs études à Oxford. Robert se convertit à la religion catholique et étudie à Reims où il est ordonné en 1585 comme Guillaume. L'année suivante, ils ont été martyrisés, pour avoir refusé de prêter le serment d'allégeance à la reine Élisabeth Ière, sur l'île de Wight. Ils ont été béatifiés en 1929.
Dans l’île de Wight en Angleterre, l’an 1586, les bienheureux Robert Anderton et Guillaume Marsden, prêtres et martyrs. Sous la reine Élisabeth Ière, ils furent condamnés à mort pour être entrés en Angleterre, alors qu’ils étaient prêtres, même si c’était seulement à la suite d’un naufrage, et allèrent au martyre avec un cœur ferme et tranquille.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/11637/Bienheureux-Robert-Anderton-et-Guillaume-Marsden.html
Robert Anderton
1586
Il était né en Lancashire
(Angleterre) dans une honorable famille et fit ses études au Collège anglais de
Reims, où il s’acquit la réputation de vir doctissimus.
Une fois ordonné prêtre, il
repassa en Angleterre avec son Confrère, William Marsden. Mais le bateau alla
échouer sur l’Ile de Wight, où ils furent suspectés et appréhendés. N’ayant pas
renié leur sacerdoce, ils furent mis en prison.
Ils firent remarquer qu’ils
avaient accosté contre leur volonté, qu’ils n’avaient pas séjourné dans le
royaume plus longtemps que le permettait la loi, avant qu’on les ait
appréhendés, et que par conséquent ils n’étaient pas coupables de trahison, ni
condamnables. Ils étaient fort adroits ! Mais les jurés écartèrent cette
évidence et les condamnèrent à mort, pour haute trahison, étant des
prêtres, donc dépendants de l’autorité romaine, et décidés à entrer dans le
royaume.
Ils furent donc exécutés tous
deux sur l’Ile de Wight, le 25 avril 1586.
Ils furent béatifiés en
1929.
William Marsden
1586
Il était né à Goosnargh
(Lancashire, Angleterre) et fit ses études au Collège anglais de Reims.
Une fois ordonné prêtre, il
repassa en Angleterre avec son Confrère, Robert Anderton. Mais le bateau alla
échouer sur l’Ile de Wight, où ils furent suspectés et appréhendés. N’ayant pas
renié leur sacerdoce, ils furent mis en prison.
Ils firent remarquer qu’ils
avaient accosté contre leur volonté, qu’ils n’avaient pas séjourné dans le
royaume plus longtemps que le permettait la loi, avant qu’on les ait
appréhendés, et que par conséquent ils n’étaient pas coupables de trahison, ni
condamnables. Ils étaient fort adroits ! Mais les jurés écartèrent cette
évidence et les condamnèrent à mort, pour haute trahison, étant des
prêtres, donc dépendants de l’autorité romaine, et décidés à entrer dans le
royaume.
Ils furent donc exécutés tous
deux sur l’Ile de Wight, le 25 avril 1586.
Ils furent béatifiés en 1929.
Blessed Robert Anderton and William Marsden MM (AC)
Born in Lincolnshire, England; died 1586; beatified in 1929. Both Robert Anderton and William Marsden were educated at Oxford (Robert at Brasenose College, William at Saint Mary Hall). After Robert's conversion to Catholicism he studied for the priesthood at Rheims and was ordained in 1585, as did William. The following year they were martyred on the Isle of Wight (Benedictines).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0425.shtml
Ven. Robert Anderton
English priest and martyr, b. in the Isle of Wight about 1560; d. 25
April, 1586. He matriculated in Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1578. He afterwards went abroad, was converted, and then entered the college
at Reims in 1580. It was there that he and Marsden
began that companionship which was not broken even in death. Having completed
their course, they set sail for England, but were overwhelmed in a storm. They prayed that they might die on land rather than on
sea, and their prayer was granted. Driven ashore, they were at once
seized and shortly after tried and condemned. They now pleaded that they had
not transgressed the statute, as they had been cast on shore perforce. This led
to their being summoned to London, where they were examined upon the celebrated
"bloody question", whether they would fight against the Pope, even if the quarrel were for purely religious
causes. Though they acknowledged
Elizabeth as their lawful
queen in all temporal matters, they would not consent to the required test. The sentence was then confirmed,
and a proclamation was published, explaining their guilt. They were taken back
and executed near the place
where they had been cast ashore, being hanged, drawn, and quartered.
Sources
CHALLONER, Memoirs; POLLEN, Acts of English Martyrs (1891), 66-82.
Ryan, Patrick W.F. "Ven. Robert Anderton." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 25 Apr. 2015
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01467c.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for
New Advent by John Orr.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. March
1, 1907. 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.
- 25
April
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October as one of the Martyrs
of Douai
- 1
December as one of the Martyrs
of Oxford University
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Graduated
from Brasenose College,
Oxford
in 1578,
and continued his studies
abroad. Converted
to Catholicism,
and entered the English
College at Rheims,
France
in 1580.
Ordained
at Rheims
with his friend and co-worker Blessed
William
Marsden. Sailed
for England
as a home missioner, but their ship
was driven off course, and wrecked on the Isle of Wight. Arrested
soon after, they were charged with being priests
on English
soil. They argued that they had been shipwrecked, and had no choice about being
there; due to the appeal, they were sent to London
for further interrogation. There they acknowledged Elizabeth
as their lawful queen
in temporal matters, but would not not in matters spiritual. Martyred.
Born
- hanged,
drawn, and quartered on 25
April 1586
on the beach of the Isle of Wight, England
- 8
December 1929
by Pope
Pius
XI (decree of martyrdom)
§
25 April
§
29 October
as one of the Martyrs
of Douai
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Convert
to Catholicism;
entered the English
College
at Rheims,
France
in 1580.
Ordained
at Rheims
with his friend and co-worker Blessed
Robert
Anderton. Sailed
for England
as a home missioner, but their ship
was driven off course, and wrecked on the Isle of Wight. Arrested
soon after, they were charged with being priests
on English
soil. They argued that they had been shipwrecked, and had no choice about being
there; due to the appeal, they were sent to London
for further interrogation. There they acknowledged Elizabeth as their lawful queen
in temporal matters, but would not not in matters spiritual. Martyred.
Born
§
hanged,
drawn, and quartered on 25 April
1586
on the beach of the Isle of Wight, England
§
8 December
1929
by Pope
Pius
XI (decree of martyrdom)
Blessed William Marsden
A convert to Catholicism, William Marsden was born at Chipping, the son
of a recusant yeoman named Richard Marsden. As a young man he went to France to
be trained as a priest. After being ordained he set sail for England with
another priest named Robert Anderton, who is thought to have come either from
the Isle of Man or from Euxton Hall near Chorley. Whilst crossing the English
Channel, a violent storm arose during which the two priests knelt and asked
that they be saved so that they could suffer martyrdom. Their prayers were
answered. On arriving at the Isle of Wight they were recognised almost
immediately and sent to prison. At their trial the Anglican Bishop of Winchester
taunted them with the “Pope Joan: myth and repeatedly mocked them for serving a
woman in the Church. Anderton quickly replied that whether it was “Pope Joan”
or Queen Elizabeth I, the Bishop approved of having a woman as “Head of the
Church” and he was therefore in no position to criticise them on that account.
Both were executed on the Isle of Wight on April 25th 1586.
Martyrs on the Isle of Wight
The Catholic
Church of St. Mary's, Ride, on the Isle of Wight notes that 2004 "mark[ed]
the 75th anniversary of the Beatification of the 136 English and Welsh martyrs
[by Pope Pius XI in 1929]who gave their lives so heroically at the time of the
Reformation and in the subsequent penal days. Two of the martyrs are
particularly remembered on the Isle of Wight where they were executed in 1586.
Blessed Robert Anderton and Blessed William Marsden had never intended to set
foot on the Island. It was only by a freak storm at sea that their ship took
shelter at Cowes. They were betrayed when they were heard praying, "O Lord
thy Will be done! But if we are to die, suffer us to die for Thy cause in our
own country. Let us not be remembered as the first seminarians who have
perished in the waters". Of all the iniquitous laws against Catholics,
Statute "27 Elizabeth" was the most ferocious as it made it high
treason for a priest ordained abroad to set foot in England. There was generous
financial reward for reporting papists so it was no surprise when on
disembarking at Cowes they were immediately arrested and sent to Winchester for
trial at the Spring Assizes.
Their story however starts when they first met at Rivington Grammer School
near Chorley in Lancashire. The two young men immediately became friends. They
became almost inseparable. They were to pray, study, travel and ultimate die
together as martyrs for Christ. From Lancashire they went to Oxford to continue
their education and were enrolled at Brasenose College in 1578. It is recorded
that both were "unassuming but full of life and spirits and they were
remarkable for their piety, devotion and zeal for all things sacred."
(Pollen, Acts 82) They set off together in July 1580 for Douai College near
Rheims and offered themselves to Almighty God in the Holy Priesthood. This
seminary in France was the venue for many young Englishmen (such as Robert
Anderton and William Marsden) who wished to study for the priesthood and return
to offer Mass and spread the Faith in their native homeland. It was founded in
1568 by Cardinal William Allen. English Catholics liked to think of Douai as an
"Oxford over the water" until happier days should return to the Dowry
of Mary. . . .Read the rest here.
Note that there is an Ordinariate group based at St. Mary's Ride,
with a former Anglican minister, now an ordained Catholic priest!
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† Isola di Wight, Inghilterra, 25 aprile 1586
Beatificati nel 1929.
Martirologio Romano: Nell’isola di Wight in
Inghilterra, beati Roberto Anderton e Guglielmo Marsden, sacerdoti e martiri,
che, condannati a morte sotto la regina Elisabetta I per essere entrati, sia
pure solo per naufragio, come sacerdoti in Inghilterra, affrontarono con animo
fermo e sereno il martirio.
