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30th JUNE: BL. PHILIP POWEL, MARTYR

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1. Bl. #PhilipPowel was born at Tralon, Brecknockshire, 2 February 1594, the son of Roger and Catherine Powel. At the age of 16 he became a student in the Temple, London, but went to Douai four years later,
#EnglishMartyrs #priest

2. where he received the Benedictine habit in the monastery of Saint Gregory (now Downside Abbey, Bath).

In 1618 he was ordained priest and in 1622 left Douai for the English mission. In 1645, when the Civil War broke out, he retired to Devonshire.

#England #CatholicChurch

3. He afterwards served for six months as chaplain to the Catholic soldiers in General Goring’s army in Cornwall, and, when that force was disbanded,took ship for South Wales. The vessel was captured on 22 February, 1646. Father Powel was recognised and denounced as a priest.

4. On 11 May he was ordered to London by the Earl of Warwick, and confined in St Catherine’s Gaol, Southwark, where the harsh treatment he received brought on a severe attack of pleurisy. His trial, which had been fixed for 30 May, did not take place till 9 June.

#London #UK

5. He was found gulity of being a Catholic priest and was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on 30 June 1646. (Excerpts from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)

#Tyburn