John Speed, great name
[d. 1594]
Before Father John Boste’s disembodied limbs were hung from the walls of Brancepeth Castle, as part of the Church of England’s persecution of Catholics in the 16th and 17th centuries, he had a buddy named John Speed, who ushered him around County Durham from safe house to safe house. That was a capital offense, and when he was caught, John Speed was hung for it.
He’s not even a saint, actually, merely a candidate for sainthood. To add insult to injury, there’s a more famous John Speed of his century, a cartographer. Seeing as I can’t find any paintings of our good John, the art today is his instead, and otherwise unrelated beyond feeling similarly boyscoutish.