Saint Margaret of Scotland
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- Memorial
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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 as Saint Maud, wife of Henry I.
Margaret founded abbeys and used her position to work for justice and improved conditions for the poor.
- Born
- c.1045 in Hungary
- Died
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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
- Canonized
- 1251 by Pope Innocent IV
- Patronage
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death of children
large families
learning
queens
Scotland
widows
- Representation
- queen, often carrying a black cross, dispensing gifts to the poor
- Additional Information
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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
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