ST. MARGARET OF SCOTLAND (NOV. 16TH)
Saint Queen Margaret of Scotland Edited by Bp. Joseph ( Ancient Church of the West ) St. Margaret of Scotland (AD 1045 – November 16th, 1093), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess and a Scottish queen. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". Born in the Kingdom of Hungary, before the Great Schism between East and West became permanent, to the expatriate English prince Edward the Exile, Margaret and her family returned to England in 1057. Following the death of king Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, her brother Edgar Ætheling was elected as King of England but never crowned. After she and her family fled north, Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland by the end of 1070. The Life of a Pious, Orthodox Queen Margaret's biographer Turgot of Durham, Bishop of St. Andrew's, credits her with having a civilizing influence on her husband King Malcolm by reading him narratives from the Bible. She instigated religious reform, str...
