Robert Ludlam
Blessed Robert Ludlam | |
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| Born | c. 1551 John Paul II |
Robert Ludlam (c. 1551 – 24 July 1588) was an English
Rheims on 25 November 1580, and the following September, he was ordained as a priest.[1] He set out for England on 30 April 1582.[2]
Little is known of his ministry in England. An unnamed source, quoted in Hayward,[3] says that he was
- [a]t liberty in England six or seven years. He was a very mild man, did much good in the country; for that he did much travel, and was beloved.
On 12 July 1588, Robert Ludlam and fellow priest
hanged, drawn, and quartered. The sentence was carried out the next day, at St Mary's Bridge, in Derby. Ludlam was the last of the three to be executed, and, according to eyewitnesses, stood smiling while the execution of Garlick was being carried out, and smiled still when his own turn came.[7] His last words, and the only words of his that are recorded,[8] were Venite benedicti Dei ("Come, you blessed of God"), which he uttered just before he was thrown off the ladder.[9]
Robert Ludlam, Nicholas Garlick, and Richard Simpson were declared
venerable in 1888, and were among the eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 November 1987.[citation needed
]
In 1999 Robert Ludlam had a theatre named after him in Derby, called the Robert Ludlam Theatre.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ^ Connelly, Roland. The Eighty-five Martyrs. Essex. McCrimmons Publishing Company, 1987, p. 37–38.
- ^ Connelly, p. 38.
- ^ Hayward, F.M. Padley Chapel and Padley Martyrs. Derby. Bemrose and Sons, 1903. 2nd edition 1905, p. 35.
- ^ Connelly, p. 37.
- John Hungerford Pollen. London. Burns Oates and Washbourne, 1924, p.130.
- ^ Sweeney, Garrett. A Pilgrim's Guide to Padley. Diocese of Nottingham, 1978, p. 9.
- ^ Challoner, p. 131.
- ^ Sweeney, p. 8.
- ^ Hayward, F.M. Padley Chapel and Padley Martyrs. Derby. Bemrose and Sons, 1903. 2nd edition 1905, p. 35.
