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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor will attend a Mass at St Andrew's Cathedral later to mark the saint's feast day. The former Archbishop of Westminster will represent Pope Francis who was unable to ...

School to be called St John Ogilvie High School after councillors give the green light to name change at a meeting of the executive committee. Council officials this week gave the green light to the ...

HE is officially recognised as Scotland's only Catholic martyr, who was killed for his faith in the heart of Glasgow. And now a campaign has been launched to mark the spot where St John Ogilvie was ...

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