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Margaret Worsfold
Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Indo-Iranian languages, Persian. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th century and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the List of most popular given names, 1990 census. Margaret has many diminutive forms in many different languages, including Maggie, Madge (given name), Madge, Daisy (given name), Daisy, Margarete, Marge, Margo (given name), Margo, Margie, Marjorie, Meg, Megan, Rita (given name), Rita, Greta (given name), Greta, Gretchen, and Peggy (given name), Peggy. Name variants Full name ... [...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] |
