Oliver Plunkett Quotes
I die most willingly. And with God’s grace, I shall give others the good example not to fear death. I do forgive who had a hand ... in my death and my innocent blood. As for my religion, ‘tis glorious for all my friends that I should die for it.
Plunckett was the last Roman Catholic martyr to be executed in Britain. He was accused of conspiring against the state by allegedly plotting to bring 20,000 French soldiers into the country, and for levying a tax on his clergy to support 70,000 men for rebellion. The English have always feared ever since Henry VIII severed England from the Roman Catholic Church, that the Papacy was plotting to restore Catholicism to England and sponsor an invasion of Ireland. And indeed that was true in several cases, but nowhere near as many as the English imagined. In this case, paranoia prevailed, and the trial was pretty much a farce, but he was convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered which he was.
Oliver Plunkett, 1625–1681, Catholic Archbishop of Armaugh, Ireland, Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland, Roman Catholic Saint, Last Words Before His Execution for Treason, London, June 1681, .
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Hamilton had studied with Martin Luther at Wittenberg and returned to Scotland where he converted many from the Catholic Church. He was offered a chance to recant and spare his life but he refused. He became the first Protestant Martyr in Scotland and his death brought many new converts.
Oliver Plunkett (or Oliver Plunket) (Irish: Oilibhéar Pluincéid), was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland who was the last victim of the Popish Plot. He was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, thus becoming the first new Irish saint for almost seven hundred years.
