Because of the outrage caused by the Popish Plot, which Archbishop of Armagh, was executed at Tyburn in 1681, the last Roman Catholic martyr to die in England? In 1975, he was canonised, and became the first new Irish saint for almost 700 years.
Oliver Plunkett is named for him . Plunkett avenue , Mervue, Galway city. Oliver Plunkett Oliver Plunkett (also spelt Oliver Plunket) (), (1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) 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. His portrait is by Garrett Murphy the celebrated Irish painter. Oliver Plunkett was born on 1 November 1625 (earlier biographers gave his date of birth as 1 November 1629, but 1625 has
The Phoenix and the Turtle a Roman Catholic executed at Tyburn in 1601 and subsequently canonised by the Roman Catholic Church as a martyr. St. Anne Line and her young husband Roger were separated when he was imprisoned and then exiled after being arrested at a prohibited Catholic Mass. He died on the European continent a few years later and St. Anne began working for the Jesuits in London. She was arrested at a Candlemas liturgy and convicted of harbouring a Catholic priest, which led to her execution. Her body was retrieved from the common grave in the road and one of the Jesuits who