Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow has praised a new painting of Scottish martyr St John Ogilvie as “powerful” and “prayerful”.
The painting, by celebrated artist Peter Howson, will be placed in St Andrew’s Cathedral in Glasgow once renovations are complete next April.
It shows St John Ogilvie, a Scot who became a Jesuit priest and ministered secretly to Catholics in Glasgow, with his head in a noose just as he is about to be hanged.
Archbishop Conti said he was “delighted” with the work. He said: “It is a painting of great intensity which will not only be highly regarded as a work of art, but will also be an aid to prayer and reflection, which, is after all, its primary function.
