St Nicholas Owen

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St Nicholas Owen was born in Oxford, England during the 16th Century. He is known for saving the lives of many priests and laypersons in England during the penal times of 1559-1829 when a series of statutes punished Catholics for the practice of their faith. Whenever Nicholas set out to design such hiding places, he began by receiving the Holy Eucharist, and he would turn to God in prayer throughout the long, dangerous construction process. He entered the Society of Jesus and served as a lay brother and was later subjected to such vicious torture that he died of it on the 2nd March 1606. St Nicholas Owen was canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He was also known as Little John.

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