I hope that readers of the “Disptches” blog will indulge your correspondent and permit me to post a more personal note about the Jesuit martyr, St. John Ogilvie, put to death in Glasgow, Scotland, on ...

POPE Francis has sent a special envoy to Glasgow as the city marks the 400th anniversary of the violent martyrdom of St John Ogilvie. Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, former archbishop of Westminster, ...

March 10 is the liturgical memorial of Saint John Ogilvie, a 16th- and 17th-century Scotsman who converted from Presbyterianism to Catholicism, served as a Jesuit priest, and died as a martyr at the ...

For more than a century the Church has beatified and canonized dozens of Reformation-era martyrs from England and Wales. But Scotland has only one martyr from that period — St. John Ogilvie (1579-1615 ...

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