Martyr; born near Keith, Scotland, 1580; died Glasgow, Scotland, 1615. He was converted from Calvinism at Louvain, and having joined the Jesuits returned to the Scottish mission. Some months later he was betrayed in Glasgow and hanged after torture. Canonized in 1976.
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