John Ogilvie (saint)

John Ogilvie (* 1580 in Drum, † March 10, 1615 in Glasgow ) was a Jesuit and a martyr of the Catholic Church.

Life

John Ogilvie, the son of a Calvinist court official under Mary Stuart, converted at the age of 17 years to Catholicism. In 1592 he traveled to the perfection of his upbringing to Europe; at the University of Helmstedt he probably was enrolled as a student. Later he was a student at the Pontifical Seminary in Olomouc in 1599 and entered the Jesuit Order. In 1610 he was ordained priest in Paris. A year later, he returned secretly to his home country, Scotland, where he worked as a private teacher and the imprisoned Catholics visited the prisons. 1614 John Ogilvie was betrayed and arrested. He refused to renounce the Catholic faith and suffered severe torture. He failed his tormentors, to induce him to betray the Catholic faith. During his imprisonment, John Ogilvie wrote a surviving account of his arrest and his fate in prison. In a trial, he was sentenced to death by hanging for treason. The sentence was carried out publicly in Glasgow on March 10, 1615.

Pope Paul VI. John Ogilvie canonized on October 17, 1976. His feast day is 10 March.

Works

• Relatio incarcerationis ( report of his arrest and suffered torture ) 1614