{"id":32145,"date":"2015-03-10T17:51:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T21:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32145"},"modified":"2015-03-16T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T22:01:09","slug":"saint-john-ogilvie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/saint-john-ogilvie-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint John Ogilvie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/St-John-Ogilivie.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32147 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/St-John-Ogilivie-245x300.gif\" alt=\"St John Ogilivie\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>St. John Ogilvie, by your devotion to Christ you held fast to the faith, even unto martyrdom. \u00a0With the grace of God, may I have a loving heart in the midst of trials. \u00a0May I, like you, \u201cbe of good cheer\u201d and trust in the love of God.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today the Church in Scotland and the Society of Jesus celebrates the feast of Saint John Ogilvie commemorating the 400th anniversary of his death. This Jesuit priest is a\u00a0martyr who earlier in life made a conversion to Catholicism.<\/p>\n<p>John Ogilvie was born in Scotland in 1579 and raised as a Protestant. He was sent abroad for studies where he\u00a0converted to Catholicism. By 1599, he entered the Jesuit novitiate in Vienna leading to his ordination to the priesthood in Paris in 1610.<\/p>\n<p>Father Ogilvie was missioned by his religious superiors to return to his native Scotland in 1613. Within a year was arrested in Glasgow. Having spent spent an extended amount of time\u00a0in prison and he was tortured, but never\u00a0denounced his obedience to Catholic faith and the leadership of the Roman Pontiff.\u00a0On March 10, 1615, he was tried for high treason, found guilty and executed.<\/p>\n<p>Father\u00a0John Ogilvie\u00a0was beatified in 1929 and Blessed Paul VI canonized him in Rome in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. John Ogilvie, by your devotion to Christ you held fast to the faith, even unto martyrdom. \u00a0With the grace of God, may I have a loving heart in the midst of trials. \u00a0May I, like you, \u201cbe of good cheer\u201d and trust in the love of God.\u00a0 Today the Church in Scotland and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/saint-john-ogilvie-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint John Ogilvie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32149,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32145\/revisions\/32149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}