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1539, PATRICK HUMBERT, AND OTHERS OF THE TRINITARIAN CONVENT DUBLIN.
The Trinitarian convent1 of Dublin was one of the principal houses of the Order in Ireland.
It was founded In 1188 by allured Le Palmer.
It Stood on the site now Occupied by the Augustinian church, Thomas Street, and was dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
The building was large and ornamental, its revenues were considerable and the Community numbered about fifty.
On the first news reaching them of the King’s wicked design to subvert the Catholic faith and introduce a new creed, the former Provincial, Father Theobald, wrote to his successor suggesting that a meeting of the leading men of the Order should be convened in Dublin, to take the necessary measures in face of the danger that was imminent.
The Provincial presided Besides the superiors of houses, several other members remarkable for their learning and virtue were present; among them we find the names of FF. Thaddeus O’Brien, of Kilkenny, John Hogan, and William Hurley.
When the Chapter had assembled, each gave his opinion, upholding the Catholic faith and the pope’s authority, and declaring the impious decrees of the King to be heretical and the King to be a heresiarch; and putting their trust in the Most Holy Trinity, all took the resolution to lay down their lives in defence of the truth.
The conference was just ended when the news came of what had taken place at Adare.
F. Theobald exclaimed
‘The Most Holy Trinity has blessed our Order with a happy beginning and thus given us a pledge that the like grace will accompany us to the end.’
All signed a profession of the Catholic faith, which might be distributed among the faithful.
On February 24th the royal agents arrived in Dublin to enforce their master’s decrees.
The next morning the exhortation of the Fathers was found posted in all the public squares and streets.
The Provincial and F. Theobald went about preaching to the people.
The latter being thought the leader of the resistance, was immediately shot.
The Provincial was seized by a hired band and dragged through the streets.
He repeated aloud that he would not abandon the faith so long as he had life.
The judges ordered the executioners to do their work.
A stroke of the hatchet put an end to his life.
His ribs were broken, and his heart taken out.
His body was thrown on a dunghill.
But when night came, the Catholics got possession of his scattered members, and buried them.
The other religious, some of whom had gone out into the streets to preach, while others remained in the convent, were all taken and put to death in divers ways.
Some were hanged, others beheaded, some stoned; others in fine were dragged through the streets until they expired; and their bodies were cast on the dunghills.
These, too, the faithful took away during the night and buried.
The triumph of these glorious martyrs took place on the 25th and 26th of February 1539.
Please pray for final perseverance for all of us!
May the martyrs of old inspire us all.
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By Manus Mac MeanmainThe Trinitarian convent1 of Dublin was one of the principal houses of the Order in Ireland.
It was founded In 1188 by allured Le Palmer.
It Stood on the site now Occupied by the Augustinian church, Thomas Street, and was dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
The building was large and ornamental, its revenues were considerable and the Community numbered about fifty.
On the first news reaching them of the King’s wicked design to subvert the Catholic faith and introduce a new creed, the former Provincial, Father Theobald, wrote to his successor suggesting that a meeting of the leading men of the Order should be convened in Dublin, to take the necessary measures in face of the danger that was imminent.
The Provincial presided Besides the superiors of houses, several other members remarkable for their learning and virtue were present; among them we find the names of FF. Thaddeus O’Brien, of Kilkenny, John Hogan, and William Hurley.
When the Chapter had assembled, each gave his opinion, upholding the Catholic faith and the pope’s authority, and declaring the impious decrees of the King to be heretical and the King to be a heresiarch; and putting their trust in the Most Holy Trinity, all took the resolution to lay down their lives in defence of the truth.
The conference was just ended when the news came of what had taken place at Adare.
F. Theobald exclaimed
‘The Most Holy Trinity has blessed our Order with a happy beginning and thus given us a pledge that the like grace will accompany us to the end.’
All signed a profession of the Catholic faith, which might be distributed among the faithful.
On February 24th the royal agents arrived in Dublin to enforce their master’s decrees.
The next morning the exhortation of the Fathers was found posted in all the public squares and streets.
The Provincial and F. Theobald went about preaching to the people.
The latter being thought the leader of the resistance, was immediately shot.
The Provincial was seized by a hired band and dragged through the streets.
He repeated aloud that he would not abandon the faith so long as he had life.
The judges ordered the executioners to do their work.
A stroke of the hatchet put an end to his life.
His ribs were broken, and his heart taken out.
His body was thrown on a dunghill.
But when night came, the Catholics got possession of his scattered members, and buried them.
The other religious, some of whom had gone out into the streets to preach, while others remained in the convent, were all taken and put to death in divers ways.
Some were hanged, others beheaded, some stoned; others in fine were dragged through the streets until they expired; and their bodies were cast on the dunghills.
These, too, the faithful took away during the night and buried.
The triumph of these glorious martyrs took place on the 25th and 26th of February 1539.
Please pray for final perseverance for all of us!
May the martyrs of old inspire us all.