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Nicholas was born at Oxford, England. He became a carpenter or builder and served the Jesuit priests in England for two decades by constructing hiding places for them in mansions throughout the country. He became a Jesuit lay brother in 1580, and was arrested in 1594 with Father John Gerard, and despite prolonged torture would not give the names of any of his Catholic colleagues; he was released on the payment of a ransom by a wealthy Catholic. Nicholas is believed responsible for Father Gerard’s dramatic escape from the Tower of London in 1597. Nicholas was again arrested in 1606 with Father Henry Garnet, who he had served eighteen years, Father Oldcorne, and Father Oldcorne’s servant, Brother Ralph Ashley, and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Nicholas was subjected to such vicious torture that he died of it on March 2nd. He was known as Little John and Little Michael and used the aliases of Andrews and Draper. He was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. His feast is March 22nd.
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๐๐ฆ๐ต ๐ถ๐ด ๐ข๐ด๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต ๐๐ช๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ข๐ด ๐๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ข๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ถ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ด๐ฆ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ’๐ด ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ. ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ, ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ถ๐ด. ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ญ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ถ๐ด.
