Martyr of Solway
The martyr of the title was Margaret Wilson, a member of the Free
Church who refused to recognise the established Church of Scotland.
The painting shows her chained to rocks on the Solway Firth where
she and a friend were condemned to death by drowning in 1685. It
is said that as the tide rose she defiantly quoted and sang from
scripture, and witnesses described how her hair floated around her
head like a halo in the clear water.
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