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BL. CHRISTOPHER WHARTON, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 28 MARCH

 

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BLESSED CHRISTOPHER WHARTON, PRIEST AND MARTYR

[Blessed Christopher Wharton, English Martyr, was] born at Middleton, Yorkshire, before 1546; he was martyred at York, March 28, 1600. The second son of Henry Wharton of Wharton and Agnes Warcop, and younger brother of Thomas, first Lord Wharton, Christopher was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated M.A., February 3, 1564, and afterwards became a fellow. 

In 1583 he entered the English College at Reims to study for the priesthood (July 28). He was ordained priest in the following year (March 31), but continued his studies after ordination till 1586, when on May 21 he left Reims in company with Ven. Edward Burden. No details of his missionary labours have been preserved; but at his trail Baron Savile, the judge, incidentally remarked that he had known him at Oxford some years after 1596. 

He was finally arrested in 1599 at the house of Eleanor Hunt, a widow, who was arrested with him and confined in York castle. There, with other Catholic prisoners, he was forcibly taken to hear Protestant sermons. He was brought to trial together with Mrs. Hunt at the Lent Assizes 1600, and both were condemned, the former for high treason, the latter for felony. Both refused life and liberty at the price of conformity, and the martyr suffered with great constancy, while Eleanor Hunt was allowed to linger in prison till she died. Dr. Worthington, writing of [Blessed] Christopher Wharton, specially commends his "humility, fervent charity, and other great virtues".

Source: Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913

⬅️ The Holy Martyrs of England and Wales

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr Christopher 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.



























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