#OTD 25th Mar 1586
Pearl of York #MargaretClitherow pregnant was ‘pressed to death’ at the toll-booth Ouse Bridge York for harbouring Catholic priests
To save her family being tortured she had entered no plea
Becoming a #CatholicMartyr she was beatified in 1929 & canonised in 1970
#History
#OTD
25th March 1586
Margaret Clitherow was pressed to death at the toll-booth on Ouse Bridge in York for harbouring Catholic priests.
#MargaretClitherow #ThePearlofYork #CatholicMartyr #York #Yorkshire #Tudors #History
✝️ Arrested by the Gestapo on this day in 1941, Blessed Georg Häfner wrote to his parents from prison. He faced deportation to Dachau with faith: "Nothing happens apart from God's will."
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#BlessedGeorgHafner #Carmelite #CatholicMartyr
#OTD in Tudor history, 28 Aug 1588, 21-year-old friar Thomas Felton was hanged at Brentford for refusing to accept Elizabeth I as head of the Church. Tortured but unbroken, he chose death over compromise.
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#catholicmartyr #elizabethi #tudors
#OTD 25th Mar 1586
Pearl of York #MargaretClitherow pregnant, was ‘pressed to death’ at the toll-booth Ouse Bridge York for harbouring Catholic priests
To save her family being tortured she had entered no plea
Becoming a #CatholicMartyr she was beatified in 1929 & canonised in 1970
#OTD
25th March 1586
Margaret Clitherow was pressed to death at the toll-booth on Ouse Bridge In York for harbouring Catholic priests.
#MargaretClitherow #ThePearlofYork #CatholicMartyr #York #Yorkshire #QueenElizabethI #Tudors #History
#OTD 25th Mar 1586
Pearl of York #MargaretClitherow pregnant was ‘pressed to death’ at the toll-booth Ouse Bridge York for harbouring Catholic priests
To save her family being tortured she had entered no plea
Becoming a #CatholicMartyr was beatified in 1929 & canonised in 1970
#Women
#History
