John Clitherow News Today

St. Margaret Clitherow was crushed to death March 25, 1586, for harboring priests. Her feast day is March 26.

St. Margaret of Clitherow, pray for us!

What motivates a person to die for their faith? These six men and women became Christian martyrs, and their cruel deaths were especially heinous.

St. Margaret Clitherow was born in Middleton, England, in 1555, of protestant parents. Possessed of good looks and full of wit and merriment, she was a charming personality. In 1571, she married John Clitherow, a well-to-do grazier and butcher (to whom she bore two children), and a few years later ...