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August 29 is the martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist. Saint John was executed by beheading by Herod Antipas on the request of Herodias' daughter. Pray for us. | Mariah M. Manuel

On this day 1798, Father John Murphy was tortured, summarily tried, and brutally executed: flogged, hanged, decapitated, and his body burned, his head placed on a spike as a warning to others. Father John Murphy was captured near Tullow on July 2, 1798, after the defeat at Vinegar Hill. Born around 1753 in Tincurry, County Wexford, he was the youngest of six children in a farm family. Educated initially in a hedge school and by a Jesuit priest, he showed aptitude in Latin and Greek . Ordained in