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Saint Margaret (other)
Saint Margaret, St. Margarets, or St. Margaret's may refer to: People In chronological order: * Saint Margaret the Virgin of Antioch (died 304) * Saint Margaret of Scotland (c. 1045–1093) * Saint Margaret of England (died 1192) * Saint Margaret of Hungary (1242–1271) * Saint Margaret of Cortona (1247–1297) * Saint Margaret of Castello (1287-1320) * Saint Margaret the Barefooted (1325–1395) * Saint Rita of Cascia (1381–1457) * Saint Margaret Clitherow (1556–1586) * Saint Margaret Ward (died 1588) * Saint Marguerite Marie Alacoque (1647–1690) * Saint Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart (1747–1770) * Saint Marguerite Bays (1815–1879) Places and buildings * Church of St Margaret of Scotland (other) * St. Margaret, Belize, a village in Cayo District, Belize * Saint Margaret Island, Victoria, Australia * St. Margarets, New Brunswick, Canada * St. Margaret's, Dublin, a town in Fingal, Ireland * St. Margaret's Bay (other) * St Margaret's Church (disamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret The Virgin
Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the West, and as Saint Marina the Great Martyr ( grc-gre, Ἁγία Μαρίνα) in the East, is celebrated as a saint on 20 July in the Western Rite Orthodoxy, Roman Catholic Church and Anglicanism, on 17 July (Julian calendar) by the Eastern Orthodox Church and on Epip 23 and Hathor (month), Hathor 23 in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. She was reputed to have promised very powerful indulgences to those who wrote or read her hagiography, life, or invoked her intercessions; these no doubt helped the spread of her following. Margaret is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, and is one of the saints Joan of Arc claimed to have spoken with. Hagiography According to a 9th-century martyrology of Rabanus Maurus, she suffered at Antioch in Pisidia (in what is now Turkey) in around 304, during the Diocletianic Persecution, Diocletianic persecution. She was the daughter of a pagan priest named Aedesius. Her mother having died soon after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
