Saint Margaret of Scotland
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- 16 November
- formerly 10 June
- 16 June in Scotland
Profile
Granddaughter of King Edmund Ironside of England. Great-niece of Saint Stephen of Hungary. Born in Hungary while her family was in exile due to the Danish invasion of England, she still spent much of her youth in the British Isles. While fleeing the invading army of William the Conqueror in 1066, her family’s ship wrecked on the Scottish coast. They were assisted by King Malcolm III Canmore of Scotland, whom Margaret married in 1070. Queen of Scotland. They had eight children, one of whom was Saint Maud, wife of Henry I. Margaret founded abbeys and used her position to work for justice and improved conditions for the poor.
Born
- 16 November 1093 at Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, four days after her husband and son died in defense of the castle
- buried in front of the high altar at Dunfermline, Scotland
- relics later removed to a nearby shrine
- the bulk of her relics were destroyed in stages during the Protestant Reformation and the French Revolution
- 1251 by Pope Innocent IV
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Brittania Biographies
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Catholic Information Network
- Catholic Online
- Christian Biographies, by James Keifer
- David McRoberts
- For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
- Google Directory
- Lives of the Saints, by Edmund LoPresti
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Island Saints, by Amy Steedman
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
- Patron Saints for Girls
- Saint Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- Saint Margaret Queen of Scotland and Her Chapel, from Saint Margaret’s Chapel Guild
- Scotland Vacations
- Scots in New Scotland
- Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Society
- Wikipedia
MLA Citation
- “Saint Margaret of Scotland”. Saints.SQPN.com. 15 November 2009. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-margaret-of-scotland/>
