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The Last Martyr of Scotland

Due to some technical and other issues, we’re a day late on re-posting this piece, , on the last martyr of the ‘Reformation’ – a term which I generally put in scare quotations, for the real reformation was the also-inaptly-named Catholic ‘Counter-Reformation’, led by the Society of Jesus, when they were all fresh and sound; now, like produce in the grocery store, one has to ‘feel them out’ first. But I digress, for today’s saint was indeed a Jesuit, a staunch and fearless one, as so many were and have been throughout history. Editor.

John Ogilvie, born in 1579, was raised in his first formative years by a Calvinist father in post-Reformation Scotland, but, as with many young noblemen, he was sent to the Continent to be educated by the recently-founded Jesuits, who had already made a name for themselves for having the best schools and curricula (adopting what had always been considered a Catholic liberal arts program).

Young Sir John soon realized the truth of Catholicism, in contrast to the obvious errors, theological, historical and spiritual, of the renegade-priest John Knox’s Presbyterianism, and, at the age of 17, was received into the Church. Soon afterwards, he joined the Jesuits themselves in 1599, and, after a solid formation, was ordained in 1610.

Praise the Lord

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