Walter Merse
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Anglican priest
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Cleric
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1594
- End date
- June 1595
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date refers to his protest against a Catholic procession and the elevation of the Eucharist.
End date refers to the execution
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States
- Crime category
- Sacrilege & blasphemy
- List of crimes
He interrupted a Eucharistic procession, causing the consecrated host to fall to the ground, denouncing its adoration as an idolatrous rite.
- Reason for conviction
- Abuser of hosts
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- June 1595
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Campo de' Fiori
- Execution type
- burned alive wearing a shirt soaked in pitch.
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Unknown
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- Unknown
- Name of the comforters
- Presence of rebels / riots
- No
- Sacraments imparted
- No
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other