York martyrs remembered at ceremony (From York Press)
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York martyrs remembered at ceremony
10:39am Friday 17th August 2012 in News
By Dan Bean, dan.bean@thepress.co.uk
Father John Bane, the parish priest of English Martyrs RC Church, takes the service commemorating York's martyrs at Tyburn on Knavesmire
MORE than 50 people who were martyred in York dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries have been remembered at a special ceremony.
The men and women, who were killed for their political, economic or religious views, were the subject of a special service at York Tyburn, on Knavesmire and close to Tadcaster Road.
About 50 people turned out to remember the matyrs’ sacrifice. The event was organised by the Knights of St Columba 95, a Catholic lay organisation.
The prayers were led by Father John Bane, of English Martyrs’ RC Church, in Dalton Terrace.
Fr Bane told the congregation: “One person’s actions can have tremendous effect on other people; in this case for a sad end, but in many cases, thankfully, to a good end.”
The congregation prayed for all Christians persecuted for their faith today, including people in regions of conflict including Syria.
Among the names read out during the service were those of George Errington, William Knight, and William Gibson, who befriended a former minister in prison, and tried to help him return to the Catholic church. The three were hung, drawn and quartered in 1596, and their heads displayed on Micklegate Bar.
Others remembered in the service were Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, who was beheaded under Elizabeth I, and Nicholas Postgate, known as Martyr of the Moors, who lived and worked in Ryedale and the North York Moors, and was one of the last Catholics to be executed for their faith in England in 1679.
Martyrs remembered
The martyrs: John Rochester, priest, Carthusian; James Walworth, priest, Carthusian monk; Robert Aske, leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace; Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland; William Lacy, priest; Richard Kirkham, priest; James Thompson (alias Hudson), priest; William Hart, priest; Richard Thirkeld, priest; Hugh Taylor, priest; Marmaduke Bowes, layman; Margaret Clitherow , laywoman; Francis Ingelby, priest; Robert Bickerdyke, layman; John Finglow, priest; Edmund Sykes, priest; George Douglas, priest; Alexander Crow, priest; Edward Burden, priest; John Amias (alias Anne); Robert Dalby, priest; William Spencer, priest; Robert Hadesty, layman; Robert Thorpe, priest; Thomas Watkinson, layman; Anthony Page, priest; Edward Osbaldeston, priest; Alexander Rawlins (alias Feriman), priest; Henry Walpole, Jesuit priest; George Errington, layman; William Knight, layman; William Gibson, layman; Henry Abbott, layman; William Anlaby, layman; Thomas Warcop, layman; Edward Fulthro, layman; John Bretton, layman; Peter Snow, priest; Ralph Grimston, layman; Richard Horner, priest; Christopher Wharton, priest; James Harrison, priest; Anthony Bates, layman; Thomas Welbourne, layman; John Fulthering, layman; Matthew Flathers, priest; Thomas Atkinson, priest; John Lockwood, priest; Edmund Catherick; Brian Cansfield, priest (killed by Puritans); Nicholas Postgate, priest; Thomas Twing
Comments(16)
Despairing Yorkie
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11:16am Fri 17 Aug 12
People are hanged. Pictures and lights are hung.
Either way you express it, it's barbarous, but please distinguish between people and inanimate objects.
Oncebitten
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11:41am Fri 17 Aug 12
Despairing Yorkie wrote:They used hung drawn and quartered, which I believe to be completely correct....(past tense)
...and The Press, please get it right.
People are hanged. Pictures and lights are hung.
Either way you express it, it's barbarous, but please distinguish between people and inanimate objects.
hanging (adj) would also be correct...really depends on verb, noun or adjective use....pedantic and proud!
Grumpy Old Man
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12:04pm Fri 17 Aug 12
PS: people are hanged but the specific sentence for treason which all these 'martyrs' suffered was to be 'hung, drawn and quartered. And you were hung, like a side of beef, for the crowd to see while your intestines were drawn from your body and burnt in front of you. Hanging usually kills you. Being hung was designed to prolong the agony as was thought fitting for treason. You probably didn't die until the intestines were drawn. At least would would be spared the pain of having your body cut into four quarters.
sheps lad
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12:09pm Fri 17 Aug 12
Will.I.Aint
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12:18pm Fri 17 Aug 12
Fat Harry
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12:41pm Fri 17 Aug 12
But while we're being pedantic, I've heard it said that the execution site wasn't where the little commemorative stone now sits next to the road, but closer to town, on a site approximating to the old public loos on Kanavesmire Road.
Can anyone confirm the actual site of the gallows and lay a myth to rest?
Woody G Mellor
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3:29pm Fri 17 Aug 12
Fat Harry wrote:I would say that out of the two sites that you mention it would more than likely be at the spot where the marker stone is. My reason is that public executions drew incredibly large crowds, especially on August race days (no joke) and the higher up on the ground the gallows were, the more easier it would of been for people to get a good view. I think where the toilets are is on too low a ground. I don't recommend it, but if you have a dig around where the stone is you'll more than likely find a few hacked up human bones, as often the criminals were not given a Christian burial but just thrown into pits around the execution site.
Grumpy Old Man, the second sentence of the article states "were killed for their political, economic or religious views" so there's no suggestion that they were all purely religious martyrs.
But while we're being pedantic, I've heard it said that the execution site wasn't where the little commemorative stone now sits next to the road, but closer to town, on a site approximating to the old public loos on Kanavesmire Road.
Can anyone confirm the actual site of the gallows and lay a myth to rest?
Woody Mellor
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6:28pm Fri 17 Aug 12
piaggio1
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10:36pm Fri 17 Aug 12
Woody G Mellor
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10:38pm Fri 17 Aug 12
piaggio1 wrote:Just got in from the pub mate?
well ,it saved us ,the ENGLISCH from speakin spanish.and bowing down to a very dodgy church,as in abuse stories.just look at sceptic f,c, and yes it was Barbaric.but that was how they did it at that time ,who are we to condem them, just look what we do now
piaggio1
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10:54pm Fri 17 Aug 12
leffe blonde??
jennings bitter??
an if you can get it camerons bitter,
dont do john smiths/tets
good night??
Woody G Mellor
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10:57pm Fri 17 Aug 12
piaggio1 wrote:Nice one. ;0)
leeds brewery bitter???
leffe blonde??
jennings bitter??
an if you can get it camerons bitter,
dont do john smiths/tets
good night??
piaggio1
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11:16pm Fri 17 Aug 12
but must admit sainte etienne lager beer, from aldi is a very nice drink
Woody G Mellor
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11:22pm Fri 17 Aug 12
piaggio1 wrote:Only shop in Waitrose or Harvey Nicks me sen. ;0) hic!
well thank you
but must admit sainte etienne lager beer, from aldi is a very nice drink
Woody G Mellor
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11:30pm Fri 17 Aug 12
Woody G Mellor wrote:Only joking by the way. Cheap and cheerful Woody. That's me. Unless I'm havin a rant on here of course. :0)
piaggio1 wrote:Only shop in Waitrose or Harvey Nicks me sen. ;0) hic!
well thank you
but must admit sainte etienne lager beer, from aldi is a very nice drink
Woody G Mellor says...
10:55am Fri 17 Aug 12
I'm far from the religious type, yet I can never pass York Tyburn ( which is twice a day) without a thought for those poor souls who faced the ultimate of horrors simply for their beliefs.
Gone, but not forgotten.