{"id":1887,"date":"2016-10-26T00:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T00:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2025-09-28T02:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:12:29","slug":"st-margaret-clitherow-brigids-hometown-catholic-martyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"St. Margaret Clitherow, Brigid&#8217;s hometown Catholic martyr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday was the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forty_Martyrs_of_England_and_Wales\"> feast of the English martyrs<\/a>, killed between 1535 and 1679. And none are more attractive then <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Clitherow\">St. Margaret Clitherow<\/a>, who was a convert and executed for harboring priests in 1586.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"189\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d2318989970c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11329\" title=\"Margaret clitherow\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she was put on trial, she refused to plead either guilty or not guilty &#8211; that way her family and any other people would not have to give any testimony. The punishment in such a case was to be pressed to death &#8211; the procedure was to have a heavy door put on top of you and then weights piled on the door. Because her husband was a prominent citizen, a stone was put behind her neck and she died of a broken neck after 15 minutes &#8211; instead of the normal several hours as was the routine with this &#8220;method.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a beautiful small chapel in York which Brigid and I always visited when we were with her family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the feast of the English martyrs, killed between 1535 and 1679. And none are more attractive then St. Margaret Clitherow, who was a convert and executed for harboring priests in 1586. When she was put on trial, she refused to plead either guilty or not guilty &#8211; that way her family and any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11330,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/11330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}