Maurus Corker

Maurus Corker, baptismal name James (* 1636 in the county of Yorkshire; † December 22 1715 in Paddington ( London) ) was an English Benedictine, religious persecution, friend Oliver Plunkett's and abbot of the monastery Lamspringe.

Life

James Corker took after his entry into the Benedictine Order the religious name of Maurus. He experienced the repression Catholics in England and more in the English monastery in exile from Lamspringe. There he lay on April 23, 1656 from the religious vows. In 1665 he was sent as a missionary in the home. He belonged to the Titus Oates of the Popish conspiracy defendants and was imprisoned in Newgate. From the charge of high treason, he was acquitted on 16 July 1679, however, than abroad ordained a Roman Catholic priest on January 17, 1680 sentenced to death. Influential advocates erwirkten a reprieve. During this period he is said to have a large number of Protestants converted to Catholicism.

In prison, he became friends with the fellow Archbishop of Armagh Oliver Plunkett and accompanied him pastorally to whose martyrdom at Tyburn on 15 June 1681st between Corker and Plunkett, a remarkable correspondence is obtained. 1683 was Corker Plunkett 's remains exhumed and secretly to bring Lamspringe. After the accession of James II in 1685 Corker was released from prison. He remained at the court as an envoy of the Elector and Archbishop of Cologne. In 1687, he founded a small monastery in Clerkenwell, which was destroyed during the Glorious Revolution the following year.

Corker had to leave England again. In 1691, he received the title of Abbot of Cismar 1693 he became abbot of Lamspringe. In 1696 he returned to England to continue his missionary activity and to refute the journalistic " Popish plot".