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Key Scottish Martyrdoms

ABOUT twenty Scots were burned to death for heresy during the period before the Scottish Reformation finally got under way in 1559. The exact number remains unknown. The three most significant deaths are those listed below. That of the 82-year-old Walter Myln was particularly counter-productive. All three died at St Andrews.

The only recorded Catholic martyrdom in the Reformation era in Scotland came at the end of the period. Saint John Ogilvie was hanged (for treason) in Glasgow on 10 March 1615.

Some have claimed that the judicial execution of Mary Queen of Scots in England in 1587 made her a martyr for her faith.