Saint John Ogilivie
Martyr

March 10

BORN in 1579, John Ogilvie belonged to the Scottish nobility. He was raised as a Calvinist but, impressed with the faith of the Martyrs, decided to become a Catholic at the age of seventeen.

    After receiving a Catholic education, John entered the Society of Jesus. He was ordained a priest in Paris in 1610.

   The young priest worked in Austria and France until 1613. Then he asked to be sent to Scotland so that he might help those of his country to return to the true Faith.

    In Scotland John brought many people back to the Catholic Faith. He had to work in secret because the Catholic Faith was outlawed in Scotland at that time.

    In time, John was betrayed by one posing as a Catholic that he went to help. He was arrested and convicted of high treason because he converted Protestants to the Catholic Faith. The intrepid priest was sentenced to death and hanged at Glasgow in 1615 at the age of thirty-six.