August 30 th is the Feast Day
of Saint Margaret Clitherow of York
She was a young married woman who worshipped in the new Protestant religion of the reign of Elizabeth I. She returned to the “Old Faith” and was eventually arrested for harbouring Jesuits, in her home, in the Shambles. To protect her husband and children she refused to speak in her own defence and was condemned and crushed to death in York on March 25 th 1586.
Margaret Clitherow is the Patron Saint for the C.W.L. and our pattern of womanhood
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