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About St. Nicholas Owen
c. 1562 – 1606 · Feast March 22 · Religious / Jesuit Brother / Martyr
English Jesuit lay brother (c. 1562-1606), "Little John," carpenter who for over twenty years built scores of priest-holes in Catholic recusant houses, saving uncounted Catholic lives during the Elizabethan and Jacobean persecution. Captured after the Gunpowder Plot, tortured to death in the Tower. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales canonized 1970 by Paul VI.
St. Nicholas Owen is the patron saint of Illusionists, Escape Artists and English Martyrs.
