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Nicholas Owen was born around 1562 in Oxford, England, into a devoutly Catholic family and grew up during the Penal Laws.His father, Walter Owen, was a carpenter and Nicholas was apprenticed as a joiner in February 1577, acquiring the skills that he would use to build hiding places.
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 ...
Gerard's most famous exploit is believed to have been masterminded by Nicholas Owen. With help from other members of the Catholic underground, Gerard, along with John Arden, escaped on a rope strung across the Tower moat during the night of 4 October 1597. Despite the fact that his hands were still mangled from the tortures he had undergone, he ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nicholas Owen 1606 Turibius Alfonso of Mogrovejo: 1538 1606 Blessed Edward Oldcorne: 1561 1606 Blessed Julian of Saint Augustine 1606 Blessed Ralph Ashley 1606 Mary Magdalene de Pazzi: 1566 1607 Blessed Robert Drury: 1567 1607 Andrew Avellino: 1521 1608 Francis Caracciolo: 1563 1608 Thomas Garnet: 1575 1608 Blessed George Gervase: 1569
The family were practicing Catholics and so the house at one time contained a priest hole, [4] possibly constructed by Nicholas Owen. These were hiding places for priests during the period when Catholics were persecuted by law in England, from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I .
The English College at Douai was founded as a Catholic seminary in 1569. Similar colleges also came about at Douai for Scottish and Irish Catholic clergy, and also Benedictine, Franciscan and Jesuit houses. Other English seminaries for the training of priests from and for England and Wales included those in Rome (1579), Valladolid (1589 ...