Lentorama 2006 Saint of the Day: St. Nicholas Owen
A carpenter, builder, and secret lay Jesuit, he used his trade to build hiding spaces for Jesuits in buildings across England. Arrested in 1594, he refused to give up other Catholics under torture and was ransomed. He was also involved in the escape from the Tower of London of Father John Gerard (who was arrested with Owen) in 1597.
Picked up again in 1606, he was put into the Tower and tortured, to the point that it killed him. He was canonized in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
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