Cuando John Henry Newman fue nombrado santo no hace mucho, fue el primer santo brit\u00e1nico canonizado desde 1976, a\u00f1o en que fue canonizado el m\u00e1rtir escoc\u00e9s San John Ogilvie.<\/p>\n
Ogilvie and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton have much in common. They are both related to Scottish nobility; they both discovered their faith in Europe; they were both early members of new religious congregations; and they both died young \u2014 Mother Seton at age 46, Ogilvie at age 35.<\/p>\n
Ogilvie\u2019s life ended on March 10, 1615 after living through harrowing torture and an era of enormous change.<\/p>\n
A Calvinist in King James\u2019 Scotland<\/strong><\/p>\n John Ogilvie era hijo del laird escoc\u00e9s calvinista de Drum-na-Keith, en Banffshire, y de Lady Agnes Elphinstone, que muri\u00f3 cuando \u00e9l ten\u00eda 3 a\u00f1os. Su padre, bar\u00f3n y seguidor de Juan Calvino cuando el reformador a\u00fan viv\u00eda, se cas\u00f3 despu\u00e9s con Lady Douglas de Lochleven.<\/p>\n The family lived in the Scotland of King James VI (of Scotland) and I (of England), the Protestant son of the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots. During Ogilvie\u2019s life the Church suffered the fallout from the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Parliament building. The thwarting of the plot, which had been organized by a group of Catholics, became the basis for the centuries-long Nov. 5 celebration of Guy Fawkes Day, often marked by anti-Catholic displays.<\/p>\n John Ogilvie\u2019s life also coincided with the flowering of English literature in William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Johnson and Francis Bacon \u2014 and the King James Version of the Bible, published a few years before Ogilvie\u2019s death.<\/p>\n Su madre biol\u00f3gica, Agnes Elphinstone, pertenec\u00eda a una familia escocesa que a\u00fan se aferraba a la fe. Sus dos hermanos eran jesuitas y se unieron a la orden que fund\u00f3 San Ignacio de Loyola 40 a\u00f1os antes de que John naciera. Pero aunque ten\u00eda dos t\u00edos en una orden cat\u00f3lica conocida por la educaci\u00f3n, su padre se ocup\u00f3 de su educaci\u00f3n y lo envi\u00f3 a una escuela luterana en Alemania cuando ten\u00eda 13 a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n Ir\u00f3nicamente, ser enviado desde Escocia a una escuela luterana en Alemania puede haber ayudado a su fe cat\u00f3lica. Los cat\u00f3licos alemanes gozaban en muchas regiones de la libertad de la que carec\u00edan los cat\u00f3licos en Escocia, y a John le fascinaban los debates entre cat\u00f3licos y calvinistas.<\/p>\n Two Scripture verses in particular are said to have turned him against the Calvinist belief that strict, rigorous discipline showed who was included in the small number of elect of God: \u201cCome to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest\u201d (Matthew 11:28) and \u201cOur Savior desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth\u201d (1 Timothy 2:4).<\/p>\n Back to Scotland \u2014 Twice<\/strong><\/p>\n San Juan se uni\u00f3 a los jesuitas y, tras ordenarse sacerdote, fue enviado a su tierra natal para servir a la Iglesia clandestina de all\u00ed. Los cat\u00f3licos se escond\u00edan de la persecuci\u00f3n avivada por el fundador de la Iglesia presbiteriana, John Knox, y otros celosos calvinistas empe\u00f1ados en borrar de su tierra los restos de la Iglesia de Roma.<\/p>\n A menudo disfrazado de tratante de caballos llamado John Watson, Ogilvie entraba en casas particulares y dec\u00eda misa. En un momento dado, intent\u00f3 abandonar el trabajo y regresar a su seminario de Par\u00eds, pero fue devuelto. Pronto, Adam Boyd, un calvinista que se hac\u00eda pasar por cat\u00f3lico, delat\u00f3 a Ogilvie y \u00e9ste fue capturado.<\/p>\n At his trial, he refused to pledge allegiance to King James in spiritual matters. He told the judge, \u201cIn all that concerns the king, I will be slavishly obedient. If any attack his temporal power, I will shed my last drop of blood for him. But in the things of spiritual jurisdiction which a king unjustly seizes, I cannot and must not obey.\u201d<\/p>\n Durante su cautiverio soport\u00f3 nueve noches y ocho d\u00edas de tortura, en los que le mantuvieron despierto y le pidieron repetidamente que divulgara los nombres de otros cat\u00f3licos. Si se quedaba dormido, sus captores le pinchaban con alfileres o cuchillos o le arrastraban por el pelo. Tem\u00eda haber perdido la cordura y renunciado al nombre.<\/p>\n He never did, though. Convicted of treason, he was paraded through the streets to be hanged at Glasgow Cross. A rebel to the end, he prayed, \u201cIf there be any hidden Catholics here, let them pray for me, but the prayers of heretics I will not have.\u201d<\/p>\n La historia cuenta que, al morir, arroj\u00f3 su rosario a la multitud y el hombre que lo recogi\u00f3 era un enemigo de toda la vida que luego se convirti\u00f3 en cat\u00f3lico de toda la vida.<\/p>\n Una tierra bendecida por los santos<\/strong><\/p>\n John Ogilvie was beatified in 1929 with other martyrs of the Counter-Reformation. St. Paul VI canonized him in 1976 after a working-class devotee was miraculously cured of cancer through Ogilvie\u2019s intercession.<\/p>\n St. Paul VI, who a year earlier had canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton, called Ogilvie \u201ca son of the land blessed by the history of other saints dear to the Church, like St. Columba and St. Margaret.\u201d<\/p>\n St. Elizabeth Ann was well aware of her own Scottish connections through her late husband\u2019s family. She adopted the motto \u201cHazard yet forward,\u201d which comes from the Seton Clan and expresses roughly the same sentiment as, \u201cDamn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.\u201d She also kept in touch with the old country, including the Lady Isabella Cayley, the sister to her father-in-law.<\/p>\n Like Ogilvie\u2019s parents, the Setons were lesser Scottish Nobility, and as a Protestant convert herself, Elizabeth would have loved that St. John Ogilvie came from a Calvinist and Lutheran background, and switched his allegiance to the Catholics during his education.<\/p>\n She spoke with delight of receiving a Dutch student of hers who personally chose the Sisters over Protestant options, saying \u201c\u2026Luther is Luther and Calvin is Calvin and Knox is Knox, Mammy, but I wants the church of the Apostles begun by them.\u201d<\/p>\n Elizabeth herself faced the same choice when she entered the Catholic Church. She speaks of the train of concerned Protestants who tried to win her over, including Betsy the Quaker, \u201cMrs. T\u201d the Anabaptist, and Mary the Methodist. One woman from the Church of Scotland invited her to hear a popular Scotch Presbyterian preacher of the day, saying, \u201cOh do, dear soul, come and hear our John Mason and I am sure you will join us.\u201d She did neither.<\/p>\n Hoy en d\u00eda, San John Ogilvie es considerado un Santo Tom\u00e1s Moro escoc\u00e9s, un modelo de libertad religiosa.<\/strong><\/p>\n In recent years, Catholics have pursued efforts to put a permanent memorial in Ogilvie\u2019s honor at the site of his execution.<\/p>\n Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow said St. John Ogilvie was even more important at a time when Catholics face \u201cmore subtle forms of restricting religious freedom,\u201d which today are \u201climiting your freedom to say in public places what you believe and what you hold most dear in your heart and in your conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n Pope Francis agreed, telling Scottish seminarians in 2016 that Ogilvie\u2019s sacrifice \u201chas borne fruit in your beloved homeland. We too are living in a time of martyrdom, and in the midst of a culture so often hostile to the Gospel. I urge you to have that same selfless spirit as your predecessors did. Love Jesus above all things!\u201d<\/p>\n TOM HOOPES<\/strong>, autor m\u00e1s reciente de El Rosario de San Juan Pablo II, es escritor residente en el Benedictine College de Kansas, donde imparte clases. Es anfitri\u00f3n de La extraordinaria Stor<\/a>y podcast sobre la vida de Cristo. Su libro Lo que dijo realmente el Papa Francisco<\/a> ya est\u00e1 disponible en Audible<\/a>. Antiguo reportero en la zona de Washington, D.C., fue secretario de prensa del Presidente del Comit\u00e9 de Medios y Arbitrios de la C\u00e1mara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos y pas\u00f3 10 a\u00f1os como editor del peri\u00f3dico National Catholic Register y de la revista Faith & Family. Su trabajo aparece con frecuencia en el Register, Aleteia y Catholic Digest. Vive en Atchison, Kansas, con su esposa, April, y tiene nueve hijos.<\/em><\/p>\n