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Female saints from England in the Middle Ages (5th century to 1485). This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Medieval English saints . It includes Medieval English saints that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Margaret Ward (c. 1550–30 August 1588), called the "pearl of Tyburn", [1] was an English saint and martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I for assisting a priest to escape from prison. She was canonised in 1970, as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Margaret Clitherow (née Middleton, c. 1556 – 25 March 1586) was an English recusant, [2] and a saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, [3] known as The Pearl of York. She was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests. She was canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI.
In addition, St Hilda's College, Oxford, established in 1893 for female students, remained with that status for more than 100 years, before turning co-educational when it was deemed that the percentage of women studying at Oxford had risen to near 50 per cent. The symbol of the college is the ammonite of St Hilda and during the centenary, 100 ...
Margaret was the daughter of the English prince Edward the Exile and his wife Agatha, and also the granddaughter of Edmund Ironside, King of England. [1] After the death of Ironside in 1016, Canute sent the infant Edward and his brother to the court of the Swedish king, Olof Skötkonung, and they eventually made their way to Kievan Rus'.
It includes Saints that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Female saints . The saints in these categories are recognized as saints by various Christian churches or other religious bodies.
Saints portal; Saints from England, or who lived in England, after 1066. For saints in or from England before 1066 see Category:Anglo-Saxon saints. For saints in or from areas which only later became part of England see. Category:Romano-British saints, Category:Northern Brythonic saints, Category:Southwestern Brythonic saints & Category:Cornish ...
Frithuswith hiding with swine. From a stained glass in the Lady Chapel At Gloucester Cathedral. St Margaret's Well, Binsey, Oxfordshire. Frithuswith, commonly Frideswide (Old English: Friðuswīþ; c. 650 – 19 October 727), was an English princess and abbess. [1]