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Saint '''Margaret Clitherow''' (1556 – March 25, 1586) is an English [[saint]] and [[martyr]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Rayne-Davies|first=John|title=Margaret Clitherow: Saint of York|publisher=Beverley : Highgate of Beverley|date=2002|isbn=1-902645-32-4}}</ref> She is sometimes called "the Pearl of [[York]]". |
Saint '''Margaret Clitherow''' (1556 – March 25, 1586) is an English [[saint]] and [[martyr]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Rayne-Davies|first=John|title=Margaret Clitherow: Saint of York|publisher=Beverley : Highgate of Beverley|date=2002|isbn=1-902645-32-4}}</ref> She is sometimes called "the Pearl of [[York]]". |
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==Life== |
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She was born as '''Margaret Middleton''',<ref>[http://www.stwilfridsyork.org.uk/st_margaret_clitherow.html St. Wilfrid's Roman Catholic Church - York]</ref> the daughter of a wax-[[chandler]], after [[Henry VIII of England]] had split the [[Church of England]] from the Roman Catholic Church. She married John Clitherow, a butcher, in 1571 (at the age of 15) and bore him three children. She converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of 18, in 1574. Her husband John was supportive (he having a brother who was Roman Catholic clergy), though he remained Protestant.<ref>''The Little Black Book: Six-minute reflections on the Weekly Gospels of Lent 2009'', page about "The Pearl of York", published by the [https://secure.saginaw.org/orderform.php Diocese of Saginaw]</ref> She then became a friend of the persecuted Roman Catholic population in the north of [[England]]. Her son, Henry, went to [[Rheims|Reims]] to train as a [[Holy Orders|Roman priest]]. She regularly held Masses in her home in the [[Shambles]] in [[York]]. There was a hole cut between the attics of her house and the house next door, so that a priest could escape if there was a raid. A house in the Shambles once thought to have been her home, now called the ''Shrine of the Saint Margaret Clitherow'', is open to the public (it is served by the nearby Church of [[St Wilfrid's York|St Wilfrid's]] and is part of the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Diocese of Middlesbrough]]); her actual house (10 and 11, the Shambles) is further down the street. |
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In 1586, she was arrested and called before the York [[Assize Court|assizes]] for the crime of harbouring Roman Catholic [[priest]]s. She refused to plead to the case so as to prevent a trial that would entail her children being made to testify and therefore they would be tortured, and she was executed by being [[peine forte et dure|crushed to death]] – the standard punishment for refusal to plead. She was killed on [[Good Friday]] of 1586. The two sergeants who should have killed her hired four desperate beggars to kill her. She was stripped and had a handkerchief tied across her face then laid out upon a sharp rock the size of a man's fist, a door was put on top of her and slowly loaded with an immense weight of rocks and stones (the small sharp rock would break her back when the heavy rocks were laid on top of her). Her death occurred within fifteen minutes; she was left for 6 hours before the weight was removed from her corpse. After her death her hand was removed, and this relic is now housed in the chapel of the Bar Convent, York. After Clitherow's execution, Elizabeth I wrote to the citizens of York to say how horrified she was at the treatment of a fellow woman: due to her sex Clitherow should not have been executed. By pleading the case she would have forced her family to testify against her and have made them lose their inheritance. |
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[[File:MC-photo.jpg|thumb|200px|Commemorative plaque on the Ouse Bridge]] |
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In 2008, a commemorative plaque was installed at the Micklegate end of [[Ouse Bridge]] to mark the site of her martyrdom; the [[Bishop of Middlesbrough]] unveiled this in a ceremony on Friday 29 August 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://middlesbrough-diocese.org.uk/archives/572|title=Bishop Terry to unveil plaque to St Margaret Clitherow|date=29 August 2008|publisher=The Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough|accessdate=15 November 2010}}</ref> |
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== Canonisation == |
== Canonisation == |
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Saint Margaret Clitherow | |
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 Margaret Clitherow, the Pearl of York. | |
| One of the "Forty Martyrs of England and Wales" | |
| Born | 1556 York[1] |
| Died | March 25, 1586 York |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Canonized | 1970, Rome by Pope Paul VI |
| Major shrine | The Shambles, York |
| Feast | March 26 |
Saint Margaret Clitherow (1556 – March 25, 1586) is an English saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church.[2] She is sometimes called "the Pearl of York".
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Canonisation
She was beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI and canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI along with other martyrs from England and Wales. The group of candidates canonised at that time is commonly called "The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales". Her feast day in the current Roman Catholic calendar is 26 March.[citation needed]
A number of schools in England are named after Margaret Clitherow, including schools at Bracknell, Brixham, Manchester, Nottingham, Stevenage, Thamesmead SE28, Brent, London NW10 and Tonbridge. The Roman Catholic primary school in Nottingham's Bestwood estate is named after Clitherow. In the United States, St Margaret of York Church and School, located in the Cincinnati, Ohio suburb of Loveland, is also named after her.
She is also the patroness of the Catholic Women's League, an organisation of Catholic women founded in 1906, with small groups (known as branches) and sections (groupings of branches, usually along diocesan lines) across the world.
References
- ^ Britannica.com
- ^ Rayne-Davies, John (2002). Margaret Clitherow: Saint of York. Beverley : Highgate of Beverley. ISBN 1-902645-32-4.
External links
- The Official Shambles Website More information about Margaret Clitherow from the Official Website of the Medieval Street where she lived.
- Sacred Destinations A page on the shrine, with photographs
- Eternal Word Television Network: ST. MARGARET: MOTHER AND MARTYR
"St. Margaret Clitherow" in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.- Template:Worldcat id
- The Bar Convent Website of the Bar Convent, York
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)