St. Margaret Of Scotland Medal and Necklace

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ST. MARGARET OF SCOTLAND

Parents in exile

Saint Margaret was long the faithful wife and, for a brief time, the widow of King Malcolm Canmore, the third of his name. Princess Margaret’s early life was darkened by many adverse events, but brightened by her piety. Her father Edward, a Saxon prince, and Agatha, her mother, a scion of the royal houses of Germany and Hungary, were disinherited and exiled. Saint Margaret was eleven or twelve years old when the greatest changes in her life occurred. After a long period of exile, her father was summoned to return to his cousin try, at the time governed by his uncle Edward, known in later years as “the Confessor”.

Life in England

Margaret’s life in England was not very different from what it had been in Hungary, for her father, Edward, kept an austere court. Each morning at dawn, the entire household attended Mass. It was not long, however, before Margaret’s father died and she was called upon to bear all the troubles and anxieties of the stormy period that followed upon her father’s death. England could no longer be a safe home for them and St. Margaret’s mother, Princess Agatha, prudently prepared to leave the country. Some historians claim that it was her intention to flee to Scotland and place herself under the protection of Rino Malcolm.

Safety

Landing on the coast of Scotland, the Margaret and her mother had to walk towards Dunfermline. King Malcolm met them on the way and took the women to his own castle, “Tower” as it was called, and entertained them for many months. The following spring, in the year 1050, Princess Margaret and King Malcolm were married, and Margaret reined as Queen of Scotland until her death in 1093. Promptly she threw herself into the manifold duties incumbent upon a wife, who was also the consort sovereign of a wild and turbulent people. Two years later, their home and capital was changed to Edinburgh, Malcolm Canmore being the first of the Scottish Kings to make the little burgh of St. Edwin the chief seat of the kingdom.

Marriage and prayer

Amidst her varied duties, Margaret found time to converse with God, and she won her husband to imitate her sanctity. He would rise at night to pray with her. She did not rest until she saw the laws of God and His Church observed throughout the realm. St. Margaret spared no pains in the education of her eight children, and their sanctity can be attributed to the prudent zeal of their holy mother. Before sunrise each morning, she dressed and fed nine infant orphans; she also distributed food and alms to three hundred of the poor in her kingdom. She was the most trusted counsellor of her husband, and she labored for the material improvement of her country. King Malcolm had often had wars with William the Conqueror. Queen Margaret was opposed to her husband going to battle with William Rufus.

Death

She was in ill-health at the time and shortly after her husband left she became worse. Yet each day she dragged herself to the chapel to assist at Mass. On November 16, 1093, she had to leave the chapel and be supported to her own chamber. Her end was near. The Chaplain, her maids, and her children were around her couch. She encouraged her children to shed no tears for her, as she would soon reach the home where she had longed be. Then turning to her confessor, she earnestly begged him to guard and watch over her children and bring them up in the fear of the Lord. With the words “Deliver me, O Lord” she breathed her pure soul into the hands of God. So much loved and honored had she been that successive generations cried aloud for her canonization. Many churches were built in her honor; many miracles were performed at her tomb. Pope Innocent III placed St. Margaret’s name on the calendar of the Church’s Saints in 1251.

St. Margaret of Scotland Rosary
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