THE SHINING PEARL OF YORK
A FILM ABOUT SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW - ENGLISH MARTYR
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The Shining Pearl of York
One of our great English Martyrs, Saint
Margaret Clitherow, has been known in history since her death, as the Shining
Pearl of York. She was a Catholic convert at a time when it was illegal to be a
member of the outlawed Catholic Church in Elizabethan England, yet she showed
no fear for standing close to the Pope, the Church and the Truths of the Faith
even at the risk of her own life. She worked in her husband's butcher shop in
York down a popular street called 'The Shambles'. It was here that she shone as
an example of kindness, piety and devotion, taking the opportunities of her
contact with customers, neighbours and friends to defend the persecuted
Catholic Church as well as encourage those who were terrorized by the
anti-Catholic government to hold firm to the Faith.
Not only did Saint Margaret Clitherow
live and breathe the Catholic Faith, devotions and piety in her daily life, but
she determinedly organised and kept secret rooms, holes and safe locations,
even in her own home, for hunted Catholic missionary priests. She hid sacred
vessels used in the celebration of the illegal Holy Sacrifice of the Mass,
educated her beloved children and the children of her neighbours in the
Catechism of the Catholic Church, lit devotional candles, prayed the rosary and
other illegal activities, which saw her arrested numerous times.
Saint Margaret Clitherow also adamantly
refused to attend the Protestant Services which were legally required by the
State Church and Protestant Government. Her husband, although he never
converted himself, allowed his beloved wife to remain loyal to the True Church
and many times paid her fines.
Eventually, the law caught up with Saint
Margaret who was betrayed by one of her little students into revealing the
location of sacred Mass vessels and the hiding place of a priest. She was
arrested, imprisoned and subjected to a trial where she refused to defend
herself so as to protect her family and friends. She was sentenced to death and
suffered a rare and unusual execution by law. It is believed that she was
expecting a child when she was crushed to death for her Catholic Faith in
Elizabethan York.
Learn about the inspiring life of this
great Elizabethan Catholic wife, mother and Saint in a film that has been
internationally praised for not only presenting information, details and facts
but a prayerful and spiritual film experience. As seen on EWTN.
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