Bah, I was hoping to get to this yesterday so I could do St. Dismas (the good thief crucified alongside Jesus) but, alas, I'm also a big fan of today's saint as well.
1. St. Margaret was pretty and charming, and married a well-to-do man, John Clitherow. She joined the Catholic Church a few years after her marriage.
2. Being Catholic in the 1500s in England was a dangerous thing, and St. Margaret's zeal and the fact that she hid priests soon led her to be in danger herself. She was arrested and imprisoned.
3. The authorities tried to make her deny her faith, but she would not. She was executed by being stretched on the ground over a sharp rock and pressed on with a door laden with weights (I know we learned about this method of execution when we talked about witches and the Salem trials in English in high school, but for the life of me I can't remember it).
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