107 Fergal Ward OSF
from Our Irish Martyrs Hosted by Manus
(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 698) HE was a native of Ulster, a religious of the Order of St. Francis of the Strict Observance, and a very famous preacher. He was seized treacherously by a certain Forbes, a Scotchman by birth, a cruel and barbarous rebel, who had the command of six pirate vessels given him by the parliament. Three months after he was taken prisoner, he was hanged, through hatred of the faith, from the yard-arm of a ship in the middle of the river Shannon, where this pirate was lying in wait for plunder for many weeks. He died at the end of October, 1642.
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