3/26 - St. Margaret Clitherow

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Today's saint is St. Margaret Clitherow.

St. Margaret Clitherow, who lived from 1556 to 1586, also called Margaret of York,

live in York, England, the daughter of a candlemaker and wife of a wealthy Protestant butcher.

She was raised, England, and just after the time that King Henry VIII

severed the Church of England from communion with the Roman Catholic Church.

A few years after her marriage, at the age of 18, she converted to the Catholic Church due to

the work of covert missionary Catholic priests. While her husband remained Protestant,

she aided persecuted Catholics by sheltering priests, which included her brother-in-law

and having mass and confessions set in her home, which became a safe house and hiding place for priests.

Margaret witnessed the torturous death of many of the priests she aided,

and she would publicly pray on the spot of their martyrdom.

Undaunted in her work, she was imprisoned numerous times.

On her final arrest, she was charged for harming Catholic priests and was condemned to a

public execution by being crushed to death, a martyrdom of which she considered herself unworthy.

All three of her children entered the religious life, two priests and a nun.

St. Margaret Clitherow, the Pearl of York, is the patron saint of martyrs, businesswoman,

and converts. Perfee states, March 26.

Say a prayer for all vocations. St. Margaret Clitherow, pray for us.

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