The widowed mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, Mary of Guise, had become regent in 1554, and generally she is well spoken of, although...

When Elizabeth died in 1603, the crown was offered to James VI, King of Scots. Since he was the first James on the English throne he was...

By the time of “Regnans in excelsis” (1570), Mary, Queen of Scots, was already a prisoner in England, and plots and conspiracies swirled...

In 1570, Pope Pius V issued a document entitled “Regnans in excelsis” which described Queen Elizabeth I as “the pretended Queen of...

Please read the previous post before this one. By 1534 the mood had changed. Henry VIII had become frustrated with his failure to secure...

What is the connection between a man dying on a cross 2000 years ago and our ordinary lives today? No one will be able to give a...

In understanding the martyrdom of Saint John Ogilvie, it is important to have a closer look at what had happened further afield in the...

“Cuius regio, eius religio” is a saying which arose out of the turmoil of the century of the Protestant Reformation. “Whoever’s kingdom -...

On his return to Scotland after an absence of about twenty years, we know that he went first to his home district. Did he visit his...

John Ogilvie was born into a Calvinist family in 1579 in Drum, near Keith in the present-day District of Moray in the North-East between...