'Ghost' of Irish martyr Saint Oliver Plunkett captured on video?

Author of books on paganism and witchcraft claims find while on vacation in Ireland

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The purported "ghost" of Saint Oliver Plunkett as seen on video

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He built schools both for the young and for clergy, whom he found "ignorant in moral theology," and took on the problem of alcoholism in the clergy, writing "Let us remove this defect from an Irish priest, and he will be a saint."

On July 1, 1681, Plunkett became the last Catholic martyr to die in England when he was hanged, drawn and quartered after a kangaroo court "trial." He was beatified in 1920 and canonized in 1975.

In 1997, he became a patron saint, adopted by a prominent prayer group campaigning for peace in Ireland, and was named Saint Oliver Plunkett for Peace and Reconciliation.

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