MARGARET, Queen of Scotland, Saint. - Great-niece of St. Edward the Confessor, b. ca. 1045, in Hungary, where her family was in exile, d. 16 Nov. 1093.
Having returned to her homeland around the age of nine, she had to go into exile again with her family in Scotland because of the defeat suffered by the Anglo-Saxons at Hastings at the hands of William the Conqueror (1066). She was received by King Malcolm III, who gave her hospitality in the royal castle of Dunfermline and then asked her in marriage (1070). The new queen was a blessing for her husband and for the Kingdom. Malcolm, unlettered and rough, but of good sentiments, came so much under her influence as to be transformed into a lovable, humane and pious king and to become one of the most virtuous sovereigns of Scotland. To her subjects, besides the good example of a life wholly devoted to prayer and to the poor, she dedicated her best efforts to turn them away from grave superstitious and scandalous abuses and to recall them to Christian practice, gathering various synods, procuring good priests, working herself with the maidens of the nobility to provide the churches with vestments and objects of worship. Indeed, she founded with her husband various churches, among them that of the Most Holy Trinity at Dunfermline, in which she was afterwards buried. Having learned by divine revelation of the death of her husband and of her firstborn son, which occurred in an expedition against William the Red (13 Nov. 1093), she too prepared herself for it: she died three days later.
The feast of M. was extended to the whole church by Innocent XII on 4 March 1693. Feast on 10 June.
Bibliography6 worksActa SS. Iunii, II, Paris 1867, pp. 324-31 (life written by her confessor); I. Pinkerton, Ancient lives of Scottish saints, 2nd ed., edited
BIBL.:Acta SS. Iunii, II, Paris 1867, pp. 324-31 (life written by her confessor); I. Pinkerton, Ancient lives of Scottish saints, 2nd ed., edited by W. M. Metcalfe, Paisley 1895, pp. 295-322; L. Menzies, St. Margaret queen of Scotland, London 1925; J. R. Barnet, Margaret of Scotland, queen and saint, ibid. 1926; M. R. Adamson, Gloria e tradizioni della Scozia cattolica: la santa regina M., in Illustrazione vaticana, 4 (1933), pp. 866-98; Martyr. Romanum, pp. 231-32.
Testore, Celestino. “Margherita, regina di scozia, santa.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, col. 72. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/margherita-regina-di-scozia-santa.
MLA
Testore, Celestino. “Margherita, regina di scozia, santa.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 72. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/margherita-regina-di-scozia-santa.
BibTeX
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author = {Testore, Celestino},
title = {Margherita, regina di scozia, santa},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {72},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/margherita-regina-di-scozia-santa}
}
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