Oliver Plunkett
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Oliver Plunkett, also spelled Plunket Irish: Oilibhéar Pluincéid; 1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681, was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the Popish Plot
Portrait by Edward Luttrell
Titus Oates, perpetrator of the "Popish Plot"
Westminster Hall, where Plunkett was tried
St Oliver Plunkett casket in Downside Abbey
Popish Plot
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The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy invented by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria. Oates alleged that there was an e
Oliver Plunkett
…Irish: Oilibhéar Pluincéid; 1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681), was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the Popish Plot. He was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, thus becoming the first new Irish saint in almost seven hundred years. Oliver Plunkett was born on 1…
The execution of the five Jesuits
Broadside, "The Solemn Mock Procession of the POPE, Cardinalls, Iesuits, Fryers etc: through ye City of London, November ye 17th. 1679."
Informer William Bedloe