On July 1, 1681, Oliver Plunkett, the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, was executed in Tyburn, London. He was falsely accused of treason during the Popish Plot, a fabricated conspiracy against King Charles II. Plunkett was the last Catholic martyr to be hanged, drawn, and quartered in England. His execution became a symbol of religious persecution and he was later canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 1975.
