allegiance to King James, and it was for this crime that he was tried. During the trial he accused the king of 'playing the runagate from God' and stated he would acknowledge him no more than an 'old hat'. Found guilty, he was hanged at Glasgow Cross on 10 March 1615, aged thirty-six. The customary beheading and quartering were omitted owing to undisguised popular sympathy, and his body was hurriedly buried in the churchyard of Glasgow cathedral. Ogilvie's last words were: "If there be here any hidden Catholics, let them pray for me but the prayers of heretics I will not have." After he was pushed from the stairs, he threw his concealed rosary out into the crowd. According to legend, one of his enemies caught it and subsequently became a devout, lifelong Catholic. After his execution Ogilvie's followers were rounded up and put in jail. They suffered heavy fines, but none received the death penalty. Veneration As a martyr of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation he was declared Venerable in the seventeenth century. Ogilvie was beatified in 1929 and canonised in 1976 on 17 October, becoming the only post-Reformation Scottish saint. His feast day is celebrated on 10 March in the Catholic Church in Scotland. In the rest of the world it is celebrated on 14th October. In Corby, Northamptonshire — an English town with a strong Scottish heritage — a Catholic church registered in March 1980 is dedicated to John Ogilvie. In the Scottish Highlands there is the Parish of Saint John Ogilvie comprising the Churches of Saint Joseph’s in Invergordon and Saint Vincent De Paul’s in Tain. At the service to mark the quadricentenary of his death, he was described as "Scotland's only Catholic martyr". See also George Wishart List of Protestant martyrs of the Scottish Reformation Forty Martyrs of England and Wales List of Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation John Black (martyr) George Douglas (martyr) William Gibson (martyr) Patrick Primrose Hugh Barclay of Ladyland, David Graham, Laird of Fintry, Spanish blanks plot Alexander Cameron (priest) Saint John Ogilvie, patron saint archive References Sources Jesuit saints 1579 births 1615 deaths Catholic saints who converted from Protestantism Canonizations by Pope Paul VI 17th-century Christian saints 17th-century Roman Catholic martyrs 17th-century Scottish people Martyred Roman Catholic priests People from Keith, Moray Scottish Roman Catholic saints Executed Scottish people Converts to Roman Catholicism from Calvinism 17th-century executions by Scotland