St. Margaret
St. Margaret of Scotland, also known as Margaret of Wessex, was a significant historical figure who became Queen of Scotland and was canonized for her piety and charitable works.
Early Life
St. Margaret was born around 1045 and married Malcolm III, King of Scotland in 1070. As queen, Margaret was known for her deep Christian faith and her commitment to charitable works. She established a ferry across the Firth of Forth for pilgrims traveling to St. Andrews and worked to improve the church and education in Scotland.
Significance and Historical Background
Queen Margaret was revered as a strong, pure and noble character who had very great influence over her husband, and through him over Scottish history, especially in ecclesiastical affairs. Her religion, which was genuine and intense and she was responsible for a change in the manner of observing Lent, which thenceforward began as elsewhere on Ash Wednesday and not as previously on the following Monday, and the abolition of the old practice of observing Saturday (Sabbath), not Sunday, as the day of rest from labour.
Her feast day is 16 November, the date of her death and she is venerated as a saint in the Anglican Communion
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