Margaret Ward
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Margaret Ward, called the "pearl of Tyburn", was an English saint and martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I for assisting a priest to escape from prison. She was canonised in 1970, a
Statue of St Margaret Ward in St Etheldreda's Church, London.
Robert Southwell (priest)
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Robert Southwell, SJ, also Saint Robert Southwell, was an English Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order. He was also an author of Christian poetry in Elizabethan English, and a clandestine missionary in
Margaret Ward
…was arrested, charged, and tried for "aiding a traitor to escape" and was tortured by being hung by her wrists and beaten for eight days. According to Robert Southwell, a martyr and Jesuit priest, Ward "was flogged and hung up by the wrists, the tips of her toes only touching the ground, for so long a time that she…
Line engraving by Matthaus Greuter (Greuther) or Paul Maupin, published 1608.
Frontispiece of Saint Peter's complaint