(slideshow) The secret “priest holes” of England - Page 2

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St. Nicholas Owen, tortured to death for creating hidden rooms for priests

St. Nicholas Owen was a Catholic carpenter with numerous disabilities and a genius for creating hidden rooms and passages. He was canonized in 1970, in belated recognition for one of the most brilliant and unappreciated Britons of the 16th and early 17th centuries.

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