Nicholas Horner
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Template:Use dmy dates Template:EngvarB Nicholas Horner (died 3 March 1590) was an English Roman Catholic layman, hanged, drawn and quartered because he had "relieved and assisted" Christopher Bales, a seminary priest. A tailor by trade, he was charged with making a jerkin for a priest. Horner maintained that the customer was a stranger and he didn't know who he was.[1] Horner is recognized as a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.
Life
Horner was born at Grantley in Yorkshire. A tailor by trade, he had gone to London to be cured of a wound in his leg. He was arrested on the charge of harbouring Catholic priests and committed to Newgate Prison, where he was kept for a long time close confined in a cell. Due to the heavy fetter on his leg and the deprivation of all medical aid, he contracted blood poisoning in the injured leg which rendered an amputation necessary.[2] During the procedure, he was assisted by John Hewitt, a priest and fellow prisoner, also originally from York.[3]
After a year, he was set free through the efforts of some friends, and worked at his trade at some lodgings at Smithfield. At some point he made the priest Bales a jerkin. When he was again found to be harbouring priests he was cast into Bridewell for harbouring priests and hung up by the wrists till he nearly died.[4]
Horner was convicted of a felony for making a jerkin for a priest, and as he refused to conform to the public worship of the Church of England, was condemned. On the eve of his execution at Smithfield, he had a vision of a crown of glory hanging over his head; the story of this vision was told by him to a friend, who in turn transmitted it by letter to Robert Southwell.[2] He was hanged in front of his lodging in Smithfield, 3 March 1590.[4]
References
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- ↑ Pollen SJ, J.H., Acts of English Martyrs Hitherto Unpublished, London. Burns and Oates, 1891, p. 227
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- ↑ a b Brown, C.F. Wemyss. "Nicholas Horner." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 16 April 2020
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- ↑ Dunn, Henry E., "Venerable John Hewitt", Lives of the English Martyrs, (Edwin Hubert Burton and John Hungerford Pollen, eds.) Longmans, Green and Co., 1914, 508.
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- ↑ a b Bowden, Henry Sebastian. "Venerable Nicholas Horner, Layman, 1590". Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors, 1910. CatholicSaints.Info. 22 April 2019
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- Attribution
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- Joseph Gillow, Bibl. Dict. Eng.. Cath., s. v.
- Richard Challoner, Memoirs, (Edinburgh, 1878), I, 166, 169, 218