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  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...

  In Ireland the memorial of St Fiacre, and in England of Saints Margaret Clitherow, Anne Line, and Margaret Ward, may be celebrated today. SS. Margaret, Anne, and Margaret ➡️ St Margaret Clitherow, Martyr   ⬅️ Saint Anne Line, Martyr ➡️ Saint Margaret Ward, Martyr   ➡️ Saint Fiacre, Anchoret and Confessor

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 26th of March WELCOME! SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW, MARTYR   ⬅️ Forty Holy Martyrs of England and Wales Margaret Clitherow  was born as Margaret Middleton. The daughter of a wax chandler, she married a butcher called John Clitherow when she was 15 years old in 1571. They had three children. When Margaret was 18 she converted to Catholicism, although her husband, while supportive of his wife, remained Protestant. SHE BECAME A FRIEND OF PERSECUTED CATHOLICS Margaret became a friend of persecuted Catholics in the north of England. Her son, Henry, trained at Reims [seminaries and Catholic churches were outlawed in England for several centuries] in order to become a Catholic priest and they regularly held [clandestine] Masses at her home in York. In the event of a raid, there was a hole in her attic that enabled priests to escape to the adjoining house. The house believed to have been hers is now called the Shrine of the S...