Nikola Owen

Nikola Owen, S.J. (Oxford, 1560 hivi – London, 22 Machi 1606) alikuwa bradha Mjesuiti aliyesaidia sana kudumisha imani Katoliki nchini Uingereza In Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot, Fr. John Gerard, S.J. wrote of him: I verily think no man can be said to have done more good of all those who laboured in the English vineyard. He was the immediate occasion of saving the lives of many hundreds of persons, both ecclesiastical and secular..

Alitangazwa mwenye heri na Papa Pius XI mwaka 1929 na mtakatifu mwaka 1976 na Papa Paulo VI.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa na Wakatoliki tarehe ya kifodini chakeMartyrologium Romanum.

Maisha
Baada ya kulemaa mguu, kwa miaka mingi alifanya kazi ya kusaidia na kuficha  mapadri waliofanya utume nchini bila kujali dhuluma ya serikali, wakiwemo ndugu zake wawili  na Edmundi Campion. Kwa ajili hiyo aliwahi kufungwa na kuteswa (1581 na 1594).

Alijiunga na Wajesuiti mwaka 1597 akaendelea na huduma zake muhimu hadi alipokamatwaLives of the Saints By Alban Butler, Peter Doyle, ISBN 0-86012-253-0Realising just whom they had caught, and his value, Secretary of State Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury exulted: "It is incredible, how great was the joy caused by his arrest... knowing the great skill of Owen in constructing hiding places, and the innumerable quantity of dark holes which he had schemed for hiding priests all through England". na kuteswa kikatili kwa siku kadhaa na hatimaye kuchanwa vipandevipande chini ya mfalme James Ihttp://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/93218.

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Category:Waliozaliwa 1560
Category:Waliofariki 1606
Category:Wajesuiti
Category:Wafiadini Wakatoliki
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