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

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