Santa Margarita, Series; Saints and Virgins Painting

St. Margaret Clitherow is an English martyr of the Catholic Church and considered one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. She is known as "the Pearl of York". Martyrdom On March 10, 1586, John was summoned to appear before the court of York Judge Clinch sentenced her to death and rejoiced in the knowledge that she would be a martyr. She was put in prison in the house of John Trew, at Ouse Bridge; she was never allowed to see her children and only once was she allowed to meet her husband in the presence of the jailer. The night before her martyrdom, she sewed her own shroud and then spent most of the time on her knees. At eight o'clock in the morning, the commissary came to take her to the dungeon, a few meters from the prison, and "everyone marveled to see her joyful and cheerful countenance". On Good Friday 1586 she was taken to her execution where she knelt to pray aloud for the Pope, the cardinals, the clergy, the Christian princes, and especially for Queen Elizabeth that God would convert her to the faith and save her soul. Some of the Anglicans present there asked her to pray with them; but Margaret refused. She sent her husband her hat "in token of loving devotion, as the head of her family" and to Agnes, her twelve-year-old daughter, her shoes and stockings to signify that she should follow in her footsteps. Agnes became a nun in Louvain, while two of the martyr's sons later became priests. She was forced to undress and lie face down on the ground on a pointed rock, her hands were tied to posts at her sides and a door was placed on her back, over which they loaded an immense weight of rocks and stones. Her last words, as she received the weight on her body, were, "Jesus, Jesus, have mercy on me!" Death came upon her in fifteen minutes and her body was left six hours in the press.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:13.4 W x 17.3 H x 0.2 D in

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