Oliver Plunkett - Timeline of Events

Timeline of Events

• 4 March 1651 – tonsure & minor orders
• 20 December 1653 – ordained as subdeacon
• 26 December 1653 – ordained as deacon
• 1 January 1654 – ordained as priest in Rome
• November 1657 – appointed Professor of Theology at Propaganda college, Rome
• 1 December 1669 – consecrated as archbishop
• 7 March 1670 – landed at Ringsend, Dublin, ending 23 years of self-imposed exile abroad
• 6 December 1679 – arrested
• 23 July 1680 – trial
• 24 October 1680 – transfer from Ireland to London
• 8 June 1681 – trial
• 15 June 1681 – sentenced to death
• 1 July 1681 (OS) = 11 July 1681 (NS) – hanged, drawn, quartered (the punishment for treason against the state), beheaded
• 9 December 1886 declared venerable
• 17 March 1918 – declaration of martyrdom
• Pentecost Sunday, 23 May 1920 – beatified
• 12 October 1975 – canonized