Clitherow, Saint Margaret
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▪ English martyr
born 1556, York, Yorkshire, England
died March 25, 1586, York; canonized 1970; feast day March 25
She married (1571) a widower, John Clitherow, a butcher twice her age. Brought up in a Protestant England (
England, Church of), she converted to Roman Catholicism in 1574. She refused to attend the Anglican Church and was repeatedly fined for refusing. Thus, on June 6, 1576, she was designated a recusant (
i.e., one who fails to attend Anglican services). Because she was pregnant, she was excused from having to report to a council the following November, but she was later imprisoned for nearly a year.
Clitherow allowed secret masses to be celebrated in her home, where she also hid Roman Catholic missionary priests. After further imprisonments and releases, she was seized on March 10, 1586, during a raid on her home. Her fate was sealed, for a law of 1583 made aiding Jesuits and seminary priests punishable by death. She refused to plead guilty or innocent, stating that only God could judge her, and was executed by being slowly crushed to death with an 800-pound weight.
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