BL. FRANCIS INGLEBY, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 3 JUNE

 

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BLESSED FRANCIS INGLEBY, PRIEST AND MARTYR

Blessed Francis was an English martyr, born about 1551; he suffered at York on Friday, June 3, 1586 (old style). According to an early but inaccurate calendar he suffered June 1. He was the fourth son of Sir William Ingleby, knight, of Ripley, Yorkshire, by Anne, daughter of Sir William Malory, knight, of Studley.

He was probably a scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford, in and before 1565, and was a student of the Inner Temple in 1576. On August, 18 1582 he arrived at the English College, Reims, where he lived at his own expense. He was ordained subdeacon at Loan on Saturday, May 28, deacon at Reims, Saturday, September 24, and priest at Loan, Saturday, December 24, 1583 and left for England Thursday, Apri 5, 1584. (These four dates are all new style). He laboured with great zeal in the neighbourhood of York.

[Suspicion was raised when a companion appeared to show more deference towards him than someone dressed as a poor man would warrant. (1)]

He was arrested in the spring of 1586, and lodged in the castle. He was the one of the priests for harbouring whom the Venerable Margaret Clitherow was arraigned. At the prison door, while fetters were being fastened on his legs he smilingly said, "I fear me I shall be overproud of my boots." He was condemned under 27 Eliz. c. 2 for being a priest. When sentence was pronounced he exclaimed, "Credo videre bona Domini in terra viventium" ("I believe to see the good things of our Lord in the land of the living").

Fr Warford says he was short but well-made, fair-complexioned, with a chestnut beard, and a slight cast in his eyes.

(1) Wikipedia

(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913 - 🎨 York Castle Prisoners - A sketch of a stained glass window near York Castle, showing prisoners in the castle, Thomas Cooper, History of York Castle, 1911)

⬅️ The Holy Martyrs of England and Wales

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr Francis confessed the faith, may experience his goodness as he intercedes for us with you. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.