Saint of the Day 02/July

Saint of the Day (July 02) ✠ St. Oliver Plunkett ✠ Born: November 1, 1625, Loughcrew Cairns, Oldcastle, Ireland Died: July 1, 1681, Tyburn, London Patronage: Peace and Reconciliation in Ireland Education: Pontifical Irish College Canonized: 12 October 1975, Rome by Pope Paul VI Place of burial: Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, United Kingdom, more Books: The Letters of Saint Oliver Plunkett, 1625-1681: Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, Major shrine: St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Drogheda, Ireland Feast: 1 & 2 July Patronage: Peace and Reconciliation in Ireland Oliver Plunkett was born on 1 November 1625 (earlier biographers gave his date of birth as 1 November 1629, but 1625 has been the consensus since the 1930s) in Loughcrew, County Meath, Ireland, to well-to-do parents with Hiberno-Norman ancestors. A gr...