Saint Margaret Clitherow – York, UK - Statues of Religious Figures on Waymarking.com

Margaret Clitherow lived in the time just after Henry VIII of England had split the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church.

She converted to Roman Catholicism in 1574 when she was 18. At this time Roman Catholic priests were not allowed to preach, but she allowed them to hold mass in her house. There was a hole in the attic of her house to allow the priest to escape into the next house in case of raids.

She was eventually caught and taken to trial. She refused to enter a plea of either guilt or innocence. This was because once the trial started her children would have been tortured to get them to tell what had happened.

However a trial could not start until she entered a plea. The punishment for not entering a plea was to be crushed with heavy weights. If a person still refused to plead the weights would be left until their death by suffocation or in this case a broken back. This was despite the fact that she couldn’t have been killed for her crime if found guilty.

She was canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul Vi and she is sometimes known as the Pearl of York.

Here statue is in the shambles in a building called The Shrine of Saint Margaret Clitherow. At one time it was thought that this building was her actual home, but it was later discovered that was actually at numbers 10 and 11 The Shambles.

It is free to enter the shrine but there is an offertory box for donations.

Associated Religion(s): Roman Catholic Statue Location: The Shrine of Saint Margaret Clitherow, The Shambles Entrance Fee: None, but donations welcome Website: [Web Link] Artist: Not listed

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Take a picture of the statue. A waymarker and/or GPSr is not required to be in the image but it doesn't hurt.

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Date Logged Log   03/10/2013 Master Mariner visited it