Oliver Plunkett
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Irish archbishop, martyr and saint;
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Oliver Plunkett was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the Popish Plot. He was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, thus becoming the first new Irish saint in almost seven hundred years.