Saint March 10 : St. John Ogilvie a Jesuit Priest of Scotland who was Martyred for his Faith - #Jesuits

St John Ogilvie was a Jesuit priest, martyred for his faith at Glasgow on 10th March 1615. He is the only canonized martyr of the Scottish Reformation.
The year 2015 is the 400th anniversary of the martyrdom of St John Ogilvie.
The Life of St John Ogilvie

1579	John Ogilvie is born on 4th July at Drum-na-Keith, on the north east coast of Scotland . His father, Sir Walter Ogilvie, conformed to the state religion of Calvinism (established by act of parliament in 1560) and later known as Presbyterianism. His mother, Agnes Elphinstone, was a Catholic with two brothers in the Society of Jesus.
1582	John's mother dies when he is three. Walter Ogilvie is remarried, to Mary Douglas.
1592	Travels to Helmstedt (an illustrious Lutheran school founded in 1570) to begin his formal education, age 13.
1596	Enrols at the Scots College (which had moved from Douai to Louvain), undergoes instruction from Cornelius a Lapide SJ and shortly becomes a Roman Catholic. Then continued his studies at the Jesuit university at Olmütz (Olomouc, founded 1570) in Bohemia because of the poverty of the Scots College.
1598	Continues studies with the Benedictines at the Schottenkloster (Irish Monastery) Sankt Jakob, Ratisbon (Regensburg).
1599	Returns to Olmütz. Enters the novitiate of the Society of Jesus on 5 th November at Brno in Moravia.
1601	Takes his first vows as a Jesuit on 26 th December at Graz in Austria and then teaches grammar in the Jesuit school (founded 1573) while studying philosophy at the Jesuit university (founded 1585/6).
1606	Teaches grammar and humanities at Vienna (Jesuit college and university founded 1551).
1607	Returns to study at Olmütz to study theology. Appointed Prefect of the Sodality of Our Lady.
1610	Ordained priest at Paris and appointed confessor to the students of the Jesuit college at Rouen (founded 1593).
1613	Returns to Scotland, landing at Leith, under the alias John Watson, horse dealer. He is accompanied by James Moffat SJ and the Capuchin Franciscan, John Campbell.
1614	Ogilvie travels to London and on to France on a secret mission, seemingly under the protection of the King. He returns to Scotland in June. On 14th October, he is betrayed by Adam Boyd and arrested in Glasgow. Imprisoned and tortured for five months in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
+1615	John Ogilvie is executed at the Mercat Cross, Glasgow, on 10th March and is buried outside the city walls.
1616	Ogilvie's Relatio (his own account of his arrest, imprisonment and torture, written in prison) is printed in various cities in Europe and circulated secretly in England and Scotland.
1629	The process to have John Ogilvie declared 'Blessed' is begun but not completed for another 400 years.
1929	22nd December - Declared 'Blessed' by Pope Pius XI.
1976	17th October - Declared a 'Saint' by Pope Paul VI.
2015	400th Anniversary of the martyrdom of St John Ogilvie SJ.

Feast Day
The feast day of St John Ogilvie SJ is celebrated on 10th March (the day of his martyrdom in 1615) in the Jesuit calendar of the British Province and in the dioceses of Scotland, and on14th October (the date of his arrest in 1614 and the beginning of his martyrdom) in the rest of the universal Church.
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