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Nicholas Owen, S.J., (c. 1562 – 1/2 March 1606) was an English Jesuit lay brother who was the principal builder of priest holes during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and James I of England. [1] Owen built many priest holes in the buildings of English Catholics from 1588 until his final arrest in 1606, when he was tortured to death by prison ...
Nicholas Owen (2 January 1752 ... Owen, who was born in Llandyfrydog, Anglesey (where his father was the rector of St Tyfrydog's Church, Llandyfrydog), ...
English: St Joseph's RC Church, Wednesbury, West Midlands.One of the Forty Catholic Martyrs who was noted for constructing priest holes of consummate skill in houses throughout England.
The two best-known hide builders are Jesuit lay brother Nicholas Owen, who worked in the South and the Midlands, [3]: 182 and Jesuit priest Richard Holtby, [4] who worked in the North. After the Gunpowder Plot, Owen was captured, taken to the Tower of London, and tortured to death on the rack. He was canonised as a martyr by Pope Paul VI in ...
Nicholas Owen may refer to: Nicholas Owen (Jesuit) (c.1562–1606), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales; Nicholas Owen (priest) (1752–1811), Welsh Anglican priest and antiquarian; Nicholas Owen (journalist) (born 1947), BBC news presenter; Nick Owen (born 1947), presenter for Midlands Today; Nicholas Bond-Owen (born 1968), child ...
St. Nicholas was named a saint by the church on Dec. 6, which is the same day he is believed to have died in 343 A.D. The day is celebrated as a feast day.
Owen House's namesake is Saint Nicholas Owen and bears the colour green. Owen was a builder of hiding shelter for Catholic Priests in the 1500s, when Catholics were persecuted in Anglican England, he was duly captured and tortured. He was canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970. Ward House's namesake is Saint Margaret Ward and bears the colour lilac ...
Edward Oldcorne and Nicholas Owen, engraving by Gaspar Bouttats Some allege that Oldcorne was executed just for his priesthood. [ 3 ] Others suppose that it may have been because he was notorious or because he had provided safe refuge through Father Jones for the plotters, Robert Wintour and Stephen Littleton ( Stephen Lyttelton ); or for ...