Re: St Margaret

[Jean <sinead@milamba.com>]

Well said Niven.

Jean

At 12:54 PM 30/10/00 +0000, you wrote:
>St Margaret was born in 1046 and died in 1093.
>
>She, as you know, was born in Hungary.
>
>She married Malcolm Canmore in 1069 in Dunfermline where, as I have already
>pointed out in the general list, she is buried.
>
>She brought Benedict monks to Dunfermline.
>
>She was canonised by Innocent IV in 1251, largely as a result of the work 
>of her biographer
>and confessor, Turgot, a Saxon monk from Durham who became the Bishop of 
>St Andrews.
>
>She remains the only Scottish Royal saint - a distinction which is 
>unlikely to be challenged
>by the present crop of Royals.
>
>Niven
>
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