John Abercromby
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John Abercromby died 1561 - Catholic Priest.
During the Scottish Reformation we know that the Catholic clergy were treated with great violence, but particulars of their misfortunes are hard to find. Thomas Dempster, a diligent writer of the next century, whose accuracy, however, cannot always be trusted, in his "Historia Gentis Scotorum" (Edinburgh, 1829), 28, names Abercromby as having lost his life from such violence.
He rather tamely adds that he thinks the sufferer was a Benedictine, and that he had written in behalf of the Faith.
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia.
