Oliver Plunkett
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. He was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, thus becoming the first new Irish saint in almost seven hundred years.
Patron saint of Peace and reconciliation in Ireland
In the Martyrology
- July 1 Saint Oliver Plunkett, bishop of Armagh and martyr of England