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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