Margaret the Virgin
According to the ancient Martyrologies, she suffered at Antioch in Pisidia, in the last general persecution.
From Butler, Lives of the Saints, 1812, “ST. MARGARET, V. M.”
Patronages
According to Catholic tradition, as recorded in the sources cited for each patronage:
Pregnant women
Curiously enough this virgin has been widely venerated for many centuries as a special patron of women who are pregnant.
Recorded as patron of pregnant women in:
Feast day
- July 20 · Traditional date, Drake, Saints and Their Emblems, 1916
From Butler, Lives of the Saints, 1812, “ST. MARGARET, V. M.”
She is said to have been instructed in the faith by a Christian nurse, to have been prosecuted by her own father, a priest of the idols ;
and after many torments, to have gloriously finished her martyrdom by the sword.
Her name occurs in the Litany inserted in the old Roman Order, and in the most ancient calendars of the Greeks..
From the East her veneration was exceedingly propagated in England, France, and Germany, in the eleventh century, during the holy wars.
Her body is.
now kept at Monte-Fiascone in Tuscany.
Works of art
