Blessed Margaret Pole

Nov 262009
 

[Blessed Margaret Pole]
Also known as

  • Margaret Plantaganet

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Daughter of the Duke of Clarence. Niece of King Edward IV and King Richard III of England. Married Sir Richard Pole in 1491. Mother of five, one of whom became a cardinal. Widow. Unofficial ward of King Henry VIII, who made her Countess of Salisbury and governess to Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII.

When she opposed Henry‘s plan to marry Ann Boleyn, she was driven from court and received the king‘s disfavor. When her son, Cardinal Reginald Pole, wrote against Henry‘s presumptions to spiritual supremacy, the king decided to crush the family. Two of Margaret’s sons were executed in 1538 for the crime of being the brothers of Reginald. The elderly Margaret was arrested soon after, falsley charged with plotting revolution; in 1539 she was sent to the Tower of London where she spent her remaining two years. In 1541, at the outbreak of an actual uprising, Margaret was summarily executed with trial as a precaution. Martyr.

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  • “Blessed Margaret Pole”. Saints.SQPN.com. 11 August 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-margaret-pole/>

Saint Dionysia the Martyr

Nov 202009
 

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Born to the nobility. Widow. Sister of Saint Dativa. Mother of Saint Majoricus the Martyr. Martyred during the persecutions of the Arian Vandal king Huneric. A witness records that as she was being scourged, she called to her son not to lose his faith.

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  • “Saint Dionysia the Martyr”. Saints.SQPN.com. 20 November 2009. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-dionysia-the-martyr/>

Saint Crispina

Nov 032009
 

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Born a wealthy Roman citizen, she was a married lay woman, and mother of several children. Arrested for her Christianity during the persecutions of Diocletian. Tried, abused, humilitated and threatened in Thebeste (Thebessa) by Roman proconsul Anulinus, she gave a spirited defense of the faith. When she finished, she was sentenced to die. Marytr. Saint Augustine of Hippo routinely brought up Crispina in his homilies on martyrs.

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MLA Citation

  • “Saint Crispina”. Saints.SQPN.com. 9 August 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-crispina/>

Saint Elizabeth

Oct 202009
 

[Saint Elizabeth]
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Descendant of the Old Testament patriarch, Aaron. Wife of Zachary, temple priest. Relative of Mary. Mother of Saint John the Baptist, becoming pregnant very late in life. She was the Elizabeth that Mary visited soon after the Annunciation. Described in the Gospel of Luke as “righteous in the eyes of God, observing all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.”

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  • 1st century BC

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MLA Citation

  • “Saint Elizabeth”. Saints.SQPN.com. 9 April 2012. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-elizabeth/>

Saint Silvia of Rome

Oct 112009
 

Also known as

  • Sylvia of Rome

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Sister of Saint Tarsilla. Married to Gordianus, a Roman regionarius. Mother of two sons, one of which was Pope Saint Gregory the Great. After the death of her husband, Silvia devoted herself to religious life, living in a cell like an early anchoress. Noted for her great personal piety.

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Saint Ebbe of Minster-in-Thanet

Aug 232009
 

Also known as

  • Aebbe of Minster-in-Thanet
  • Domina Aebbe
  • Domneva
  • Ermenburga
  • Lady Ebba

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Daughter of Prince Eormenred of Kent, England; grand-daughter of King Edbald. Sister of Saint Ermengitha, Saint Etheldreda, Saint Ethelred, and Saint Ethelbert of Eastry. Married to King Merewalh of Magonset. Mother of Saint Mildred of Thanet, Saint Milburga, and Saint Milgitha, and a son named Merefin who died very young.

In 664, Ebbe’s cousin Egbert ascended to the throne of Kent. Worried about claims to the crown by Ethelred and Ethelbert, Egbert had them murdered. He later repented of the crime, and offered Queen Ebbe compensation for the loss (weregild). Ebbe chose a gift of as much land as her tame doe could run around in one course; the king agreed, and the Isle of Thanet was chosen as the site. The king‘s advisor, Thunor, who had recommended the murders, accused Ebbe of witchcraft, mounted his horse, and set off in pursuit of the doe; the earth promptly opened and swallowed him. The doe circled a large plot of land, which became the site of the monastery of Minster, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin; today the area is known as Ebbsfleet in memory of Ebbe. On the death of King Merewalh in 673, Ebbe entered the convent as its first abbess.

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Saint Wilfrida

Aug 232009
 

Also known as

  • Wuifritha
  • Wulfritha

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Mother of Saint Edith of Wilton, the result of adultery with King Edgar the Peaceable. Benedictine nun at Wilton, England, hoping that a life in the convent would make up for her sins. Spiritual student of Saint Ethelwald. Abbess of Wilton.

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MLA Citation

  • “Saint Wilfrida”. Saints.SQPN.com. 14 August 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-wilfrida/>
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