Today March 26th, our #Catholic & #Christian Friends are celebrating the Feast Days of Saints #Ludger (patron of #Saxons ), and #MargaretClitherow (Patron of #businesswomen & #martyrs ).

www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4345

www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=515

#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

Today March 26th, our #Catholic & #Christian Friends are celebrating the Feast Days of Saints #Ludger (patron of #Saxons), and #MargaretClitherow (Patron of #businesswomen & #martyrs).

www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4345

www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=515

#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