ROBERT DYMOKE, CONFESSOR

ROBERT DYMOKE, CONFESSOR - 11 SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 11th of September

ROBERT DYMOKE, CONFESSOR

Confessor of the Faith, date of birth uncertain; he died at Lincoln, England, 11 September, 1580. He was the son of Sir Edward Dymoke (died 1566) of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire, hereditary King's Champion.

In 1579 Dymoke received the martyr-priest, blessed Richard Kirkman, at Scrivelsby, and maintained him as schoolmaster to his sons. He was himself, at the time, an occasional conformist to the State-religion but was reconciled in 1580 either by Kirkman or by Blessed Edmund Campion.

In July, 1580, Dymoke and his wife, the Lady Bridget, eldest daughter and coheiress of Edward Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, were indicted for hearing Mass and for recusancy.

Though he was quite helpless owing to paralysis, Dymoke was ordered by Bishop Cooper of Lincoln to be carried off to gaol, where he died, faithful to the end. He was much tormented in his last hours by the Protestant ministers who endeavoured to pervert him, and who, even when the dying man was half-unconscious, refused to leave him in peace. He left several children, his eldest son, Edward, being more than twenty-one years of age at the time of his father's death.

Source: Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913 - 📷 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymoke, Dymoke Coat of Arms - Sable, two lions passant in pale argent ducally crowned

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