Ralph Corbie

March 25, 1598 (age 46)

Maynooth (Ireland), County Kildare, Ireland

He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929. A brother of Ambrose Corbie, he spent his childhood in the north of England. He worked at Durham for about twelve years. He was seized by the Parliamentarians at Hamsterley, 8 July 1644, when clothed in his Mass vestments, conveyed to London, and committed to Newgate Prison (22 July) with John Duckett, a secular priest. At their trial (Old Bailey, 4 September), they both admitted their priesthood, were condemned to death. When the pardon finally arrived, Corbie insisted that Duckett used it, since he was younger. But John refused. Both were condemned to death. and executed at Tyburn, 7 September. Stonyhurst has a relic of Father Corbie.

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Corbie was born near Dublin.

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Then going overseas he studied at Saint-Omer, Seville, and the English College, Valladolid. Where he was ordained.

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He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929. A brother of Ambrose Corbie, he spent his childhood in the north of England. He worked at Durham for about twelve years.

He was seized by the Parliamentarians at Hamsterley, 8 July 1644, when clothed in his Mass vestments, conveyed to London, and committed to Newgate Prison (22 July) with John Duckett, a secular priest.

At their trial (Old Bailey, 4 September), they both admitted their priesthood, were condemned to death. When the pardon finally arrived, Corbie insisted that Duckett used it, since he was younger.

But John refused. Both were condemned to death. and executed at Tyburn, 7 September.

Stonyhurst has a relic of Father Corbie.

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