Who was referred to as "Bloody Mary"?
Mary Magdalene, disciple of Jesus
Mary Rose, a Tudor warship
Mary Ann Nichols, the first murder victim of Jack the Ripper
Mary restored Roman Catholicism after the short-lived Protestant reign of her half-brother Edward VI. Her sobriquet "Bloody Mary" was given by Protestant opponents, as she had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake during the persecutions. Her re-establishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed after her death by Elizabeth I