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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. For the canonisation, the customary ...
Another victim of the Popish Plot, Oliver Plunkett, the Archbishop of Armagh, was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn in July 1681. His executioner was bribed so that Plunkett's body parts were saved from the fire; the head is now displayed at St Peter's Church in Drogheda. [74]
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Oliver Cromwell: 30 January 1661: Posthumous execution following exhumation of his body from Westminster Abbey. Robert Hubert: 28 September 1666: Falsely confessed to starting the Great Fire of London. [62] Claude Duval: 21 January 1670: Highwayman. [63] Saint Oliver Plunkett: 1 July 1681: Lord Primate of All Ireland, Lord Archbishop of Armagh ...
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The Church is famous for housing the National Shrine to St. Oliver Plunkett, who was martyred at Tyburn in 1681. The shrine is most elaborate and contains the preserved head of the saint. Another showcase displays his shoulder blade and other bones as relics.
Oliver Plunkett, 1st Baron Louth (d. c. 1555), was an Irish peer. He was the eldest son of Sir Richard (or: Patrick, Lodge vol. 6, p. 161) Plunkett of Beaulieu (died 1508), High Sheriff of Louth , and his wife Catherine Nangle, daughter of Thomas Nangle, 15th Baron of Navan .