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I think it would be more accurate to say that priests at least were
actively hunted down--after an initial decade or so of tentativeness
(others who know better can be more specific), as were lay people
assiting and harboring priests. I suppose "don't ask, don't tell"
applied to lay people who were wiling to let the priests be hunted down,
but a pollicy that aims at crippling the sacramental leadership of a
sacramentally-based Church, including the crippling of those who enable
the sacramental leaders to function, is not exactly, overall, "don't
ask, don't tell."
As far as I know, hanging, drawing, and quartering was the standard
method of execution for all the Elizabethan matryrs who were not of
noble blood because it was the standard penalty for treason and treason
was the charge leveled against Catholic priests and those who aided
them. If Elizabeth "disliked it" she certainly did not dislike it
enough to put an end to it.
But others know this terrain better than I and I am ready to be
correcteed if I have assessed the sitution.
Dennis Martin
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A modern saint: Margaret Ward (d. 1588) A very rare English female
martyr, Margaret Ward was a gentlewoman in London.....
hanged, drawn, and quartered. MW was canonized in 1970.
I've been interested in the number of Elizabethan recusant martyrs
that
Phyllis has put on the list lately. My non-specialist's understanding
of
E.'s policy towards Catholics was a sort of early "don't ask, don't
tell"
policy. I also understood that she much disliked the more gruesome
forms of
execution (e.g. see above). Am I mistaken about this? The number of
Eliz.
recusants listed as tortured martyrs seems largish.
John W.
John B. Wickstrom
Kalamazoo College
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Subject: saints of the day 30. August
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Today (30. August) is the feast day of:
Felix and "Adauctus" (d. c. 304) Felix was a Roman priest, tortured
and executed during the Great Persecution. On the way to execution,
F. so impressed a Christian bystander that he publicly proclaimed his
faith and was taken along and beheaded too. The second man's name is
unknown, so he was called Adauctus---"the added one."
Pammachius (d. 410) Pammachius was a Roman senator, friend of
Jerome, and son-in-law of St. Paula. P. devoted his life to study
and charity; among other works he built a hospice for pilgrims (the
first in the west).
Rumon (aka Ruan, Ruadan, Ronan) (6th cent.) A hopelessly obscure
saint, probably an Irish missionary. A large number of churches in
Devon and Cornwall were named after him. He may be the same person
as St. Ronan, venerated in Brittany (on June 1).
Fantinus (10th cent.) Fantinus was a Basilian monk, abbot of St.
Mercury in Calabria. One day he left the monastery and started
wandering around the countryside preaching imminent destruction.
Sure enough, invading Muslims destroyed his monastery. F. went on to
a number of sites in the eastern Mediterranean, finally dying in
Salonika famous as a miracle-worker.
A modern saint: Margaret Ward (d. 1588) A very rare English female
martyr, Margaret Ward was a gentlewoman in London. She and her Irish
servant were arrested for helping a Catholic priest escape from
prison. They were offered freedom if they would sue for pardon but
they refused and, when they refused to tell where the priest was
hiding, were hanged, drawn, and quartered. MW was canonized in 1970.
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