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Saint John Ogilvie | |
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:San_Juan_de_Ogilvie.jpg) John Ogilvie | |
| Martyr | |
| Born | 1580[1] Drumnakeith, Banffshire, Scotland |
| Died | 10 March 1615 (aged 34–35) Glasgow Cross, Scotland |
| Cause of death | Execution by Hanging |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 22 December 1929, Rome, Vatican City by Pius XI |
| Canonized | 17 October 1976, Rome, Vatican City by Paul Vl |
| Feast | 10 March |
John Ogilvie, SJ (1580 – 10 March 1615) was an outlawed Scottish Jesuit priest and martyr during the religious persecution of the Catholic Church in Scotland, which began with the 1560 Scottish Reformation Parliament and ended only with Catholic Emancipation in 1829.
Ogilvie was born into the Scottish nobility of rural Banffshire and brought up as a Presbyterian, but sent to Catholic Europe for his education. His curiosity was piqued by witnessing public debates between Catholic and Calvinist scholars and he decided to convert to Catholicism. He first took up studies with the Benedictines in Regensburg and then switched to the Society of Jesus in the Czech lands. He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest and was sent back to Scotland in 1613, where, disguised as a military officer, he served the secret and underground Catholic community, first in the Highlands and Islands, then in Edinburgh, and lastly in and around Glasgow.[2]
Arrested by Church of Scotland Archbishop of St Andrews John Spottiswoode after less than a year, Ogilvie was tortured before being tried for high treason. In a deeply ironic parallel to the religious persecution of Presbyterian Covenanters, also by Scottish Episcopalians, during the later events known as The Killing Time, Ogilvie's "high treason" involved merely refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy and renounce the independence of the Church from control by the State.[3] Ogilvie was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. Despite repeated offers of a full pardon, a high position within the Established Church, and the hand in marriage of the Archbishop's daughter, Ogilvie refused to conform to Anglicanism and was hanged at Glasgow Cross on 10 March 1615. For his work in service to persecuted Scottish Catholics, and in being hanged as a martyr for his faith, Ogilvie was canonized by Pope Paul VI on 17 October 1976 as the first post-Reformation Scottish saint.
- ^ Barrett, Michael. "Ven. John Ogilvie." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 11 December 2021
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ William Forbes-Leith (1889), Narratives of Scottish Catholics under Mary Stuart and James VI: Now First Printed from the Original Manuscripts in the Secret Archives of the Vatican and Other Collections, Thomas Baker, Soho Square, London. pp. 297-298.
- ^ George Scott-Moncrieff (1960), The Mirror and the Cross: Scotland and the Catholic Faith, Burns & Oates, London. pp. 96-97.
