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John Ogilvie ( 1579 &ndash 1615 ) was born near Keith in Banffshire , Scotland , and was educated and converted to Catholicism by the Jesuit s in Germany . He joined the Order in 1608 and was ordained in Paris . He returned to Scotland disguised as a soldier and was arrested in 1614 in Glasgow and tried and hanged in Edinburgh . As a Martyr of the Counter-Reformation he was beatified in 1929 and canonised in 1976 . |
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