ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 26th of March WELCOME! SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW, MARTYR Margaret Clitherow is pressed to death - Woodcut c/o Memoirs of Missionary Priests &.c., Ven. and Rt. Rev. R. Challoner, New Edition, Thomas Jones, London, Paternoster Row, 1842 On the 26th of March (some say the 25th) of this [1586] or the foregoing year, for authors are divided about the time, Mrs Margaret Clithero [ Clitherow ], whose maiden name was Middleton, a gentlewoman of a good family in Yorkshire, was pressed to death at York. She was prosecuted, under that violent persecution raised in those times, by the Earl of Huntingdon, lord president of the North. The crime she was charged with was relieving and harbouring priests. She refused to plead, that she might not bring others into danger by her conviction, or be accessory to the jurymen's sins in condemning the innocent. And therefore, as the law appoints in such cases, she was pressed to death¹. She...