{"id":33255,"date":"2016-03-10T13:56:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T17:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33255"},"modified":"2016-03-10T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T17:56:30","slug":"saint-john-ogilvie-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/saint-john-ogilvie-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint John Ogilvie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"St<\/a>Saint John Ogilvie<\/strong> is only officially recorded Scottish martyr as of now.<\/p>\n

Asked if he feared death, Father John replied, “No more than you do to dine.”<\/p>\n

One says,\u00a0In February 2010, during a visit to Rome by the Scottish bishops\u2019 conference, Benedict XVI asked the bishops to promote devotion to St. John Ogilvie among priests \u2013 since the Jesuit martyr had been \u201ctruly outstanding in his dedication to a difficult and dangerous pastoral ministry, to the point of laying down his life.\u201d\u00a0Later that year, during the Scottish segment of his U.K. visit, the Pope again encouraged priests to look to the saint\u2019s \u201cdedicated, selfless and brave\u201d example<\/span><\/p>\n

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Walter Ogilvie was a Scottish noble who raised his son John in the state religion of Scotland, Calvinism. John converted to Catholicism at age 17 at Louvain, Belgium. He joined the Jesuits soon after in 1597, and was ordained in Paris, France in 1610. Sent to work in Rouen, France.<\/p>\n

It was a time of great persecution of Catholicism in Scotland. \u201cSend only those,\u201d wrote the Earl of Angus to the Jesuit General, \u201cwho wish for this mission and are strong enough to bear the heat of the day, for they will be in exceeding danger.\u201d Wholesale massacres of Catholics had taken place in the past, but by this point the hunters concentrated on priests and those who attended Mass. The Jesuits were determined to minister to the oppressed Catholic laity, but when captured, they were tortured for information, then hanged, drawn, and quartered.<\/p>\n

Ogilvie repeatedly requested assignment to his home Scotland, and it was finally granted; he returned in November 1613. He worked as an underground missionary in Edinburgh and Glasgow, dodging the Queen\u2018s priest-hunters, disguised as a soldier named Watson. After 11 months in the field (and on the run), John was betrayed by a phony Catholic, imprisoned, interrogated, then tortured for the names of active Catholics. He gave no information. \u201cYour threats cheer me; I mind them no more than the cackling of geese,\u201d he told his captors. Asked if he feared to die Father John replied, \u201cNo more than you do to dine.\u201d<\/p>\n

After three trials he was convicted of treason for being loyal to the Pope, and denying the king\u2018s supremacy in spiritual matters. He is the Church\u2018s only officially recorded Scottish martyr. He suffered terrible tortures, including being kept awake for eight days and nine nights, in an attempt to make him divulge the identities of other Catholics. Nonetheless, Ogilvie did not relent; On 10 March 1615, aged thirty-six years, he was paraded through the streets of Glasgow and hanged and disembowelled, according to the penalty of the time, at Glasgow Cross.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saint John Ogilvie is only officially recorded Scottish martyr as of now. Asked if he feared death, Father John replied, “No more than you do to dine.” One says,\u00a0In February 2010, during a visit to Rome by the Scottish bishops\u2019 conference, Benedict XVI asked the bishops to promote devotion to St. John Ogilvie among priests … Continue reading 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":[1708,32149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33255"}],"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=33255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33257,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33255\/revisions\/33257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}