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John Ogilvie was born on 30 June, 1957 in Drumnakeith, Banffshire, Scotland, is a 16th and 17th-century Scottish Jesuit saint and martyr. Discover John Ogilvie's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

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Occupation actor
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 30 June, 1957
Birthday 30 June
Birthplace Drumnakeith, Banffshire, Scotland
Date of death 1615
Died Place Glasgow Cross, Scotland
Nationality United Kingdom

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1560

(After the Scottish Reformation in 1560 it had become illegal there to preach, proselytise for, or otherwise endorse Catholicism.)

It was his hope that some Catholic nobles there would aid him, given his lineage.

1597

In 1597, aged seventeen, he was received into the Catholic Church by Cornelius a Lapide S.J., professor of sacred scripture at Leuven, Belgium.

1599

Ogilvie joined the Society of Jesus in 1599 and was ordained a priest at Paris in 1613.

After ordination he served in Rouen in Normandy where he made repeated requests to be sent to Scotland to minister to the few remaining Catholics in the Glasgow area.

1613

Finding none, he went to London, then back to Paris, and finally returned to Scotland in November 1613 disguised as a horse trader named John Watson.

Thereafter he began to preach in secret, offering Mass clandestinely in private homes.

This ministry was to last less than a year.

1614

In October 1614, Ogilvie was discovered and arrested in Glasgow under the orders of Archbishop John Spottiswood, and was imprisoned.

He was initially treated well, but after continually refusing to confess, was tortured by sleep deprivation.

He aggravated his position by refusing to pledge allegiance to the royal authority of King James over the Church within his dominions, and it was for this alleged crime that Fr. Ogilvie was tried.

During the trial he criticised the King for 'playing the runagate from God' and stated he would acknowledge his authority over the Church no more than the authority of an 'old hat'.

1615

John Ogilvie, SJ (1580 – 10 March 1615) was a Scottish Jesuit priest.

Arrested after less than a year, he was hanged at Glasgow Cross in 1615.

John was the eldest son of Walter Ogilvie, a respected Calvinist who owned the estate of Drumnakeith in Banffshire.

His family was partly Roman Catholic and partly Presbyterian.

At the age of twelve he was sent to continental Europe to be educated.

He attended a number of Catholic educational establishments, under the Benedictines at Regensburg in Germany and with the Jesuits at Olmutz and Brunn in Moravia.

In the midst of the religious controversies and turmoil that engulfed the Europe of that era, he decided to become a Catholic.

Found guilty, Fr. Ogilvie was hanged at Glasgow Cross on 10 March 1615, aged thirty-six.

Ogilvie's last words were: "If there be here any hidden Catholics, let them pray for me but the prayers of heretics I will not have."

After he was pushed from the stairs, he threw his concealed rosary out into the crowd.

According to legend, one of his enemies caught it and subsequently became a devout, lifelong Catholic.

After his execution Ogilvie's followers were rounded up and put in jail.

They suffered heavy fines, but none received the death penalty.

The customary beheading and quartering were omitted owing to undisguised popular sympathy, and his body was hurriedly buried in the churchyard of Glasgow cathedral.

As a martyr of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation he was declared Venerable in the seventeenth century.

1929

Ogilvie was beatified in 1929 and canonised in 1976 on 17 October, becoming the only post-Reformation Scottish saint.

His feast day is celebrated on 10 March in the Catholic Church in Scotland.

1980

In Corby, Northamptonshire — an English town with a strong Scottish heritage — a Catholic church registered in March 1980 is dedicated to John Ogilvie.

In the Scottish Highlands there is the Parish of Saint John Ogilvie comprising the Churches of Saint Joseph’s in Invergordon and Saint Vincent De Paul’s in Tain.

At the service to mark the quadricentenary of his death, he was described as "Scotland's only Catholic martyr".

2014

In the rest of the world it is celebrated on 14th October.

2017

For his work in service to a persecuted Catholic community in 17th century Scotland, and in being hanged for his faith, he became the only post-Reformation Scottish saint.

Ogilvie was brought up a Calvinist and sent to continental Europe to further his education.

His interest piqued by the popular debates going on between Catholic and Calvinist scholars, he took up studies with the Benedictines, and then with the Jesuits.

He became a Jesuit and was sent to Scotland, where he worked among the few Catholics in the area of Glasgow.