ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 1st of May WELCOME! MATILDA, WIFE OF HENRY I. A page of one of Fortunatus Hueber's Saints' books, "Stammenbuch..." (1693) Matilda (Maud, Mathildis ) is remembered on May 1, April 30, and August 7. A daughter of King Malcolm III. of Scotland and Saint Margaret, she married King Henry I. (died 1135) of England, and died herself in 1118. Cammerarius * and others give her the title "blessed". In fact she was famous for her piety, humility and charity. During her years of discernment, she had chosen the monastic life and taken her vows. Therefore she would by no means consent to the advice of her parents, who, for the sake of peace, desired her marriage to Henry the Conqueror. Considering, however, that obedience is better than sacrifice, she submitted, but with great reluctance, even, if the account is true, cursing their future offspring ( maledicens fructui ventris sui affuturo ). But later she submitte...