John Ogilvie

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

Life

John Ogilvie, son of a Calvinist court official under Maria Stuart , converted to Catholicism at the age of 17 . As early as 1592 he traveled to Europe to perfect his education; at the University of Helmstedt he was probably registered as a student. Later he was a student at the Pontifical Seminary in Olomouc and entered the Jesuit order in 1599 . He was ordained a priest in Paris in 1610 . A year later he secretly returned to his native Scotland , where he worked as a private tutor and visited the incarcerated Catholics in prisons. In 1614 John Ogilvie was betrayed and arrested. He refused to renounce the Catholic faith and suffered severe torture . His tormentors did not succeed in persuading him to betray his fellow Catholics. While in custody, John Ogilvie wrote a surviving account of his arrest and his fate in prison. In one trial he was sentenced to death by hanging for high treason . The judgment was publicly carried out in Glasgow on March 10, 1615.

Canonization and devotion

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

In March 2015, the Catholic Church in Scotland commemorated the 400th anniversary of his martyrdom with numerous services, concerts, conferences and exhibitions.

Works

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

literature

James Hogg: Ogilvie, John. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 1158-1162. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Dieter Lent : Ogilvie, John . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th centuries , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, p. 535f ISBN 3-937664-46-7
John Ogilvie in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
Augustin Lamprecht: Johannes Ogilvie, a new blessed of the Society of Jesus and the Marian Congregation. Flag of Mary, Vienna 1930.

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Dieter Lent: Ogilvie, John . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th centuries , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, p. 535f. mwNew.
↑ Jesuits & friends , No. 90 (Spring 2015), there especially the special section Scotland's Martyr fo the Faith. Celebrating St. John Ogilvie SJ 1579-1615 , pp. 11-15.

personal data
SURNAME	Ogilvie, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Monk in the Jesuit order and martyr of the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH	Drum
DATE OF DEATH	March 10, 1615
Place of death	Glasgow

[1] Cf. Dieter Lent: Ogilvie, John . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th centuries , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, p. 535f. mwNew.

[2] Jesuits & friends , No. 90 (Spring 2015), there especially the special section Scotland's Martyr fo the Faith. Celebrating St. John Ogilvie SJ 1579-1615 , pp. 11-15.