Today is the Feast of St Oliver Plunkett, hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn on 1st July 1681.He was the last Catholic martyr to die in England. The video below is of the funeral of Father Ragheed Ganni, a Chaldean Catholic priest. In the video you hear a hymn in Arabic being sung by Fr Ganni. He was murdered along with Basman Yousef Daud, Wahid Hanna Isho, and Gassan Isam Bidawed in Iraq in 2007.
St Oliver Plunkett:The Political Death of a Religious Man
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