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17 B. MARGARET 17 to Antwerp, and about 1627 it was trans- lated to tbe Scotch college at Douai and there exposed to public veneration. It was still to be seen there in 1785; it was well preserved and had very fine fair hair. Neither the heads, the bodies nor the black rood can now bo found, but the grave of Margaret may still be seen outside the present church of Dun- fermline. Her oratory in Edinburgh castle is a small church with sturdy short pillars and a simple but beautiful ornamental pattern at the edge of its low rounded arches. It was filing to ruin whoD, in 1853, her late Majesty Queen Victoria, among her many good and wise works, had it repaired and furnished with coloured glass windows. B.M. Torgot, Life of Si. Margaret Queen of Scotland^ tr. by Forbes Leith. AA.SS., June 10. Skene, Chron, of the PictSy Chron, of the Scots, and Celtic Scot- land, Earamsin. Lappenberg. Butler, fiorstmann. Lives of the Women Sainis of our Contrie of England, Brit, Sancta. A Memorial of Ancient British Piety. Brit. Mart. Lingard, Hist, of England. Palgrave. St. Margaret (7), Queen of Den- mark, July 28, 4- 1130. Daughter of St. Ingo IV., king of Sweden, and Helen, Queen. Margaret married Nicholas, king of Denmark. She showed her sanctity by her magnificent gifts to the Church and by her strenuous efforts to restore peace throughout the country, and especially amongst certain of her relations who quarrelled. She was still striving to make peace, when the agonies of death oFertook her. Vastovius, Vitis Aquilonia. St. Margaret (8), Oct. 25, M. 1176, at Eoskild in Denmark. Patron of Boskild. She was of illustrious birth in the island of Zealand. Aunt of Peter, bishop of Hoskild, Niece of Absalon, archbishop of Lund. She married Herlaug or Haerloegr. She was fonnd hanging from a beam and was supposed to have killed herself, and therefore was denied Christian burial. Archbishop Absalon, however, investi- gated the matter and found that she had been murdered by her husband, whereupon she was translated into the VOL. II. church of St. Mary at Boskild. She is called a martyr, because she suffered an unjust and cruel death with piety and humility. AA.SS. Langebek, 5crtptore«, "Anonymi Chron. Dano Svecica, 826- 1415." St. Margaret (9), Feb. 3, Jan. li, July 20, V. 12th century. Her body is preserved with great veneration in the church of the Cistercian nuns of Seauve Benoite, about twenty miles from Puy-en-Velay. The tradition of the place — confirmed by several old writers — says she was English ; but an old French Life of her, preserved in the Jesuit college of Clermont, says she was a Hungarian, of noble birth, and that she accompanied her mother on a pilgrim- age to Jerusalem. The Biografia Ecde- siastica says that her mother was English. After the death of her mother in Pales- tine, Margaret made a pilgrimage to Monserrat and afterwards to Puy. She ended her days in the convent of Seauve Benoite, but she does not appear to have taken the vows of the Order as she is not mentioned by Henriquez, the his- torian of the Cistercians. AAJSS^^ Prseter. Butler. B. Margaret (10), Oct. 29. End of 12th century. Margaret of Hohenfels was abbess of Bingen, where her sister Ida (7), countess of Spanheim, became a mm under her in 1190. Both are called /S^atn^aby Bucelinus andMenardus. AA.SS. Ferrarius. B. Margaret (l l), July 13, daughter of Ladislaus II., king of Bohemia. In the 12th century she was third abbess of the Premonstratensian nunnery of Doxan, diocese of Prague ; it was founded by her mother, Gertrude of Austria. Stadler. Migne, Die, des Ahhayes. B. Margaret ( 1 2) of Louvain, Sept. 2 and 11, V. M. 18th century. Bepre- sented dead and floating on a river, a man with a spear standing by her, angels appearing in the heavens, the king and queen looking out of a window, a two- handled vase on the river bauk, either the wine she was bringing to the robbers or the porridge which boiled without fire at her translation. In the time of Henry I., duke of Brabant, who died 1235, there was a man