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No. 2,818
PERTH, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1934
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AN UNSLAIN MARTYR He Was a Priest in the Days of the Oats Plot —And Lived for 92 Years On a sprin cL y years ago on Gilfard himself must have wondered Tuesday, March 1: news went out from w hen he too would be walking to the, Hammersmith, thsn a quiet country sent-Told. But he weathered these district some times outside London, storms, and many that were yet to that Bishop ("Totarl was dead. , come. Two years after tragic 1679, Blessed To Catholic .; of that period. perhaps even as much a: t us to,lay. Dr. Bona- T homas Thwing, a secular priest, teas venture Giffard V•car .1p stolic ot: the r hanged at York, and four days after London District, sho had died hall an th, t shrctrlas of 1681. Blessed William hour before m: 1roght on Mar h 12, Ifriward. Viscount Stafford, was beheadIt is possible that 1734, was an oOoost legendary sup ed at Tower Hill vival. When he jied. George II. had 1 Dr. Giffard. disguised in lay clothes, w a.,, among the crowd which. on July been reigning for nearly seven years, yet Bonaventurs klifiard was old 11, 1481, surged around the spot we now enough to remember the day when his call Marble Arch to watch the hanging father had been ki:ted fighting for King of Blessed Oliver Plunket. Archbishop Charles I.. and most vivid memor- o f Armagh. the last martvr to shed his . were of the Titus Oates Plot and blood in England the days u-hrr otarty'rs were put to Honoured—and Gaoled. '2 a th in batches. When James II. came to the throne Under 12 Popes. persecution ceased. But it was duo :1 The fact tha. : . MarlagtA t, :lye on c e thi,: period that Dr. Giffard was to the age of 9'2 is. iro-leed. probably ' auncht:d into a storm of troubles. '1the thing that strO.-zes one roost forcibly .Tames, who never could see the wis.1 in the life of ,'si.. '7 ..:11a7- .li•lc ,I;an f r dom of prudence. tried to f:-:rce Eng. i living in the per- ol in which he did. ' 'And back to catholicism_ England. and being wloit 1 o., was. a 'Massing however, was by no means in the mood priest," he wa, a do•.,ine I noir wslIK- • • +-h-rat ,.: t•Ath.lie advances, even !i lag, for year.; on cry!. in the shadow w hen they were instigated by so poptr of violent death , 7 a :ingering martyr. .1 kint: __ As h was at first—as dom in prison. onsoo psr-to-o'arlY when they Ile lived throuoh seven reOon and found .larnes, a Catholic kino, restrict: the Commonwealth. and while he con- Inc th(Or liberties. trived to keep aive nc" 71' 1 (11')zel ;‘•:.'etvied the thr,,ne in P°Pes came and went. Dancer ,aa In the same always looming up before him Year Dr. Leohoon was apbio. selpointed Vicar Apostolic. ,tr.1 Dr. Gitdom failed to pass him by. I peace and h oirsiir as the Like many another \sot:no h:noli3h- farl f r -117' -art t Orr, was man, he courted death by going to Douai to styrk for the priesthood and ' he(liYiciort of Fricland into four To- (Toisro then years ni4 serve on the English mission. l't • t'r- Ntiriat7,! he was ordained. about six years When after he wl< ,1,,ecrated hr the monarchy his-1 been restored and : the Merry ,he Chapel R,00si in Monarch crowned. England had not a single Bishop. Nearly 40 Years earlier, Dr. Smith. Vicar Apostolic of the whole country, had fled to • Prance from persecution. after he II had died. England had to and September 20. 1930, when Mar wait another 114 years before Bishop 1,eybarn was Ivanios and Mar Theophilos. schismatic prelates of South India. were reappointed in his place. ceived into the Catholic. Church, 10.917 Tragic Days. J acobites have INeen converted in the As a boy of 12, Bonayenture m ight Archdiocese of Trivandrum. The chief have heard of the torture and death feature of the Romeward movement. 't Blessed John Southworth at Ty- says Archbishop Mar Ivanios, is the on June 28. 1645. and very pro- successful appeal made to the inielli°ablY the martyr's body was an ob- gentsia of the lac' bite Church. Nineject of taken toveneration after it had been teen University graduates have been Douai. He may even have received. Another feature is the num,h"rd• three years earlier, eye-witness her of Protestants converted. Within execution of Blessed the past six months. 2.500 persons who 1—' 3eteurli o V/righ formerly were converted Worn pagana chaplain fint,th: Jesuit, m n ism to Protestantism, have been rethe war in bwhich nonca ventures father was ceived into the Church. Certainly he mustkilled have heard the :v1-ole story The total population of Jacobites of the execution of Blessed ''.1ward Coleman, secretary to the and Protestants within the limits of (sp of York, at Tylnult, on- :De- the Archdiocese to-day is 395,986, and "r 3, 1671 messed Edward was that of the pagans and Mussulmant 14-1 :Tt to death for alleged complicity in 2,116,066. "te Titus spates Not. Giffard had hee The Archdiocese now has 46 schools, n a Driest for Miters when Oates where. &OH boys and 2,727 girls are -.Leased that hurricane of bigotry being .educated. The Sisters of the rn Whien sWtpt 15 priests anti 9even lay- Imitation of Christ have opened an Engt° death and slammed the prison lish Secondary School for girls. _Pious 4. orns. for ever on numerous other vie- associations for men and women have been established, and Catholic Action, 16 _Years, 1671140, no fewer than the Legion of Mary, and the Malabar bealif,pd a few years aen ra0v,lic e,gme are in constant activ4 lost e lr Ives ITo-isiro the oros. i•
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Whitehall—now the museum of the Channel Islands. Yet even that es• Royal United Services—in April. 1668. tett sive area—now divided into five But by now the pendulum was swing- dioceses—did not complete the area ing across and Dr. Giffard entered upon under his jurisdiction: he was also the his worst trials. ecclesiastical authority for all the Engfish colonies in America, awl moreKing James. still pursuing his policy ,); aggression, appointed Giffard Presi- over, in 1708-13, he also ruled the Westdent of Magdalen College, Oxford. The ern District, which included Wiltshire. college electors, however, had already Cornwall. "•'-ornerset. Dorset. Gloucester. chnsen a Protestant, and the inevit- Hereford. and the whole of Wales. Bloodless Martyrdom. able result was that Giffard, arriving Dr. Giffard was assisted by one Vicar a t Oxford, walked into a whirlwind. Orly five months later, he was ousted: General. his younger brother Andrew and when James had been deposed and It was not until 1720, when be was William and Mary reigned in his place. t hat a Coadjutor Bishop was appoi;, . even Giffard. hitherto immune from el: but Henry Howard. the 36-year-old ilishop-elect. died before consecration, vioirn,e. was thrown into prison: and Dr. Giffard had entered nes flOth. A Hunted Man. Year when finally he secured an epia About two years later he was re- copal assistant in the person of Bishop leased. hut only to become a hunted Beniamin Petre (much ti the chagrin Pursuivants were ever on his ref one of the many ecclesiastics who. man. ti-Lcks: prison doors were always ready iore-etting the Church's plight, wasted to open for the prelate on bail. The their years in futile intrigue . For 13 years the venerable prelate penalty for being a "Ma ting priest" was no longer death. but an act passed survived. a real link with the during the reign of William HI. in- .-lays of persecution. a man who acy: suffered tlood',ess martyrdom in the volved imprisonment for life, which in Yet Bishop GitTard's case would have most .oppressive penal times even at the end of his long life there meant 40 years. Even as late a,' year 1706, to avoid arrest. he had tee were no clear signs of emancipation. Manv years after his death priests were change his lodgings 14 time-c. still living constantly in danger of imMary IT. died and William followed prisonment: so late 25 1765. 34 years her eight years later: Anne came, a fter Dr. Giffard had been laid to rest Rana- beside his brother in the old St. Panreigned 12 years. and went. venture Gifford. the doomed man. liv- cras churchyard, a priest was hauled ed on. Bishop Leybiirn, Vicar Apos- before an English judge. at Vo ostitolic of the London District. died. Dr gation of a common informer to stand Giffard. then 61. succeeded him trial for the "crime" of priesthood. and And what a diocese' The London it was only on a teAnical point that District included Kent. Middlesex. 'so secoscd his liberty. Es,ex Surrey. Hampshire. Berkshire Alone With God. oolshire Buckinghamshire. HenVe-o old men, recalling the past, ;o7 Izzl:ire. the Isle of Wight and the remember best the events of .their mid- 111: ele nee. It was so with Dr Giffard: and among the lessons he passed to his priests. surely the nee tienoe ranked high. For Dr. One of the chief obstacles to the middle age coincided with the re' • steady progress of conversions is the of James II. Often he must hasc operation of a law in the State of Tra I thought how that king, if only he 04 vancore restricting the erection ot had acted with prudence and pachurches and cemeteries. Reference tience. might have turned the steps o! was made to this law in a recent ad- the English people towards the discovdress delivered by Mar Ivanois at a ery and 'recovery of their anci--reception at. which the representative Faith: hut who. instead. by Imentl of the British Government and heads tutional methods: made matters in- • of the various departments of the finitely worse. falsely identified the State were present. Church with oppression and the loss "These are •imes when organised ef- of the rizhts of citisenship. roused a forts on a gigantic scale are being mob to destroy churches and chapels. rrLde in various parts of the world to lost the throne land nearly his head' • undermine religion and overthrow con- through needlessly - •- 1 • stituted authority." the Archbishop de- devoted sobiects. and. fo clared. "Faith in God. and loyalty the firct Catholic Relief Act for a and submission to eonstituted author- years • ity gn hand in band. Hence it is imThroroh the illness which firary killperative that every encouragement e‘i Dr. Giffard was a physical martershould he given by the State for the dorn. his end was peaceful A' otos practice of religion. Every encourage- ' ace of 91 he celebrated his last ment thus rendered is a sure step to. on the Feast rf Corrnis Christi. and on wards promoting the stability of the : many occasions afterwards he -‘-•• State and the maintenance of social to receive Holy Communion o order. I am. therefore. confident that ing in bed cinder the devoted care the fossilised remnants of old disabill- the Sisters of the Hammersmith cortics still existing in this country. re- vent. In his last long days all stricting the erection of places of Ivor- tria1s and terrors of his long life w - ship for the living and of burial for shut out tr semi-oblivion. leaving h;n• the dead, will be removed by a progret- as the reward of a holy life. lust s • Sive administration like that of Travl-lent consciousness to speak te Clod core "—trifles 'T r.
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