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St Oliver Plunkett's head Oliver Plunkett was beatified on 23 May 1920 by Pope Benedict XV . [ 14 ] The cause for his canonization was opened on 27 July 1951, [ 14 ] and he was canonized in 1975, the first new Irish saint for almost seven hundred years, [ 1 ] and the first of the Irish martyrs to be beatified.
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church is located on West Street, Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. Designed by John O'Neill and William Henry Byrne and built in the French Gothic style of local limestone ashlar in 1884. This Roman Catholic church is known for its tall west gable, rose window and for containing the national shrine of St. Oliver Plunkett.
The story surrounds a twelve-year-old named Eddie and his affiliation with a local gang, known as the "Reservoir Pups". Two runaway orphans, Pat and Sean, witness the theft of Saint Oliver Plunkett’s head from St. Peter's Church in Drogheda, where it was on display for a forthcoming papal visit.
St Oliver Plunkett's Head. In 1921, the preserved severed head of Saint Oliver Plunkett, who was executed in London in 1681, was put on display in St. Peter's (Catholic) Church, where it remains today. The church is located on West Street, which is the main street in the town.
Lamspringe Abbey housed the relics of St Oliver Plunkett, taken there in 1684 by the later Abbot of Lamspringe, Corker, who had been with him in Newgate Prison in London, [5] as well as the head of St Thomas of Hereford. Plunkett's relics are now at Downside Abbey, along with a reliquary containing Hereford's skull and much of the monks ...
The church houses the relics of St. Oliver Plunkett, archbishop of Armagh, an Irish martyr, executed at Tyburn in 1681, who entrusted the disposal of his body to the care of a Benedictine monk of the English Benedictine Congregation. [21]
Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett is the second novel of the Eddie & the Gang with No Name trilogy by Northern Irish author, Colin Bateman, published on 13 May 2004 through Hodder Children's Books. [3] The story was initially written in 1995–96 as a feature film script aimed at adults.
Saint Oliver Plunkett (1681) – hanged, drawn and quartered in London for treason; William Russell, Lord Russell – Member of Parliament for Tavistock and Tavistock (1683) – executed for being involved with the Rye House Plot; Algernon Sidney (1683) – executed at Tower Hill for being involved with the Rye House Plot [19]