Margaret Clitherow [SEP] date of birth
Margaret Clitherow
Saint Margaret Clitherow (1556 – 25 March 1586) was an English saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes called "the Pearl of York". She was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests, and canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI.
Life.
Margaret Clitherow was born in 1556, one of five children of Thomas and Jane Middleton. Her father was a respected businessman, a wax-chandler and Sheriff of York in 1564
French cardinal (d. 1618)
- November 28 – Francesco Contarini, Doge of Venice (d. 1624)
- December 5 – Anne Cecil, Countess of Oxford, English countess (d. 1588)
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- December 27 – Jeanne de Lestonnac, French saint (d. 1640)
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- Margaret Clitherow, English Catholic martyr (d. 1586)
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