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VENERABLE RALPH MILNER

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Layman and martyr, born at Flacsted, Hants, England, early in the sixteenth
century; suffered at Winchester, 7 July, 1591. The greater part of his life was
probably passed in his native village, where, being practically illiterate, he
supported his wife and eight children by manual labour. he was brought up an
Anglican, but, struck by the contrast between the lives of Catholics and
Protestants of his acquaintance, he determined to embrace the old religion, and,
after the usual course of instruction, was received into the Church. On the very
day of his first Communion, however, he was arrested for changing his religion
and committed to Winchester jail. Here his good behaviour during the years of
his imprisonment won him the jailer's confidence to such a degree that he was
frequently allowed out on parole, and was even trusted with the keys of the
prison. This leniency enabled him to render valuable service to the other
Catholic prisoners and to introduce priests to administer the sacraments. Soon,
extending the sphere of his charitable activity, he acted as escort first to
Father Thomas Stanney, and later to his successor at Winchester, Father Roger
Dicconson, conducting them to the different villages to minister to the
spiritual needs of the scattered and persecuted flock. Finally seized with
Father Dicconson, Milner was with him placed under close confinement in
Winchester jail pending the approaching sessions. Probably moved with compassion
for the aged man, the judge urged Milner to attend even once the Protestant
church and thus escape the gallows. The latter refused, however, "to embrace a
counsel so disagreeable to the maxims of the Gospel," and began immediately to
prepare for death. Every effort was made to persuade him to change his purpose
and renounce the Faith, and, when he was approaching the gallows with Father
Dicconson, his children were conducted to him in the hope that he might even
then relent. Unshaken in his resolution, Milner gave his children his last
blessing, declared that "he could wish them no greater happiness than to die for
the like cause," and then met his death with the utmost courage and calm.

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APA citation. Kennedy, T. (1911). Venerable Ralph Milner. In The Catholic
Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10317a.htm

MLA citation. Kennedy, Thomas. "Venerable Ralph Milner." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10317a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Tim Drake. For
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Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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