The Priest Hunter's Nightmare: Nicholas Owen and the Hiding Places No One Could Find

There is a Catholic saint whose actual job, canonized and everything, is patron of magic tricks. Escapologists. Illusionists. And he earned it the hard way: by spending nearly twenty years building hiding places so good that people still can't find them today, standing right next to them, with a guidebook in hand. Nicholas Owen was a small, injured, entirely unremarkable-looking carpenter. He was…