POWELL, PHILIP (1594 - 1646), O.S.B.

Born at Trallwng (Trallwng Cynfyn), Brecknockshire, 2 February 1594, the son of Roger ap Rosser Powell and Catherine Morgan. He was sent to Abergavenny grammar school where the headmaster, Morgan Lewis, father of Fr. David Lewis, S.J., recommended him to Dom David Augustine Baker, O.S.B. saying: ' O, Saint o vaighgen y'e, ' The latter supervised his law studies from 1610 to 1614, and then sent him to Flanders where he studied, at Fr. Baker's expense, at the University of Louvain, 1614-19. He was ordained priest in 1618 and was professed a monk on 15 August 1619, having studied under Dom Leander Jones, O.S.B.. He was next made cellarer of S. Gregory's monastery, Douai, and was sent on the English mission on 7 March 1622. He lived with Dom Baker for sixteen months in Gray's Inn Lane, London. For the following twenty years he was chaplain to various families in Devon and Somerset until the Civil War broke out. After serving as a chaplain to Royalist troops, he tried to make his way to Monmouthshire in 1646. He was arrested off the Mumbles on 22 February 1646 by capt. Crowther, who kept him confined in his ship for two months in Penarth Roads and then sent him by sea to London. On 16 June he was condemned for his priesthood after trial in Westminster Hall and was executed at Tyburn, 30 June 1646.

Author

• John Martin Cleary

Sources

• Dom. Bede Camm, Nine Martyr Monks. The lives of the English Benedictine martyrs beatified in 1929 (1931), 318-43
• The Downside Review, xlviii
• Rev. F. E. Llewellyn Jones, The Blessed Philip Powell
• Catholic Record Society, xxxiii, 99
• T. P. Ellis, The Welsh Benedictines of the terror (Newtown 1936), 166-79
• Joseph Gillow, A Literary and Biographical History or Biographical Dictionary of the English Catholics (c.1895–1902)
• Challoner, Memoirs of Missionary Priests, … and of other Catholics, … that have suffered death in England, on religious accounts, from … 1577 to 1684

Further Reading

• Wikipedia Article: Philip Powell

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q7184229

Published date: 1959

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