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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 ...
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 ...
After imprisonment, Thomas Habington and his wife, Mary, retired to Hindlip Hall, which they had adapted as a refuge with priest holes constructed for Catholic priests including some built by Nicholas Owen. Mary was the sister of Lord Monteagle. In 1598, the house was searched by men looking for Edward Oldcorne.
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 ...
One of the Forty Catholic Martyrs who was noted for constructing priest holes of consummate skill in houses throughout England. After being subjected to extreme torture he revealed nothing to his inquisitors and died in the Tower of London. 2'11" Lime wood figure depected astride a priest hole to disguise his unequal leg length.
Instead, Blaire assigned Kelly to a new assignment at St. Andrew Parish in Calaveras County. Oliver O’Grady, one of the nation’s most notorious pedophile priests, had served in the very same ...
A California man who blamed his former classmate for getting him expelled from school and then killed her was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday, Oct. 25 ...
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