St Margaret Clitherow Procession
This year’s Pilgrimage for St Margaret Clitherow and the Martyrs of York was on Bank Holiday Monday .
The day began with an assembly at the Bar Convent to venerate the Relic of St Margaret Clitherow. There will be prayers at The Bar Convent Chapel at 10.30am, then a procession with the statue of St Margaret moved off and passed Ouse Bridge, the place of her execution, and the Shambles, stopping at the house where she lived.
Margaret Middleton was born in York in 1556 into a Protestant family. At the age of 18, she converted to Catholicism after the infamous recusant, Dorothy Vavasour, was placed under house arrest in the care of her Protestant neighbour, John Clitherow - Margaret's husband. In the reign of Elizabeth I, Catholicism was made illegal. In 1584, the passing of 'An Act against Jesuits, priests and other like disobedient persons' made harbouring Catholic priests a capital offence.
The day began with an assembly at the Bar Convent to venerate the Relic of St Margaret Clitherow. There will be prayers at The Bar Convent Chapel at 10.30am, then a procession with the statue of St Margaret moved off and passed Ouse Bridge, the place of her execution, and the Shambles, stopping at the house where she lived.
Margaret Middleton was born in York in 1556 into a Protestant family. At the age of 18, she converted to Catholicism after the infamous recusant, Dorothy Vavasour, was placed under house arrest in the care of her Protestant neighbour, John Clitherow - Margaret's husband. In the reign of Elizabeth I, Catholicism was made illegal. In 1584, the passing of 'An Act against Jesuits, priests and other like disobedient persons' made harbouring Catholic priests a capital offence.
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00:00Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now in the hour of our death. Amen.
00:13Pray for us sinners now in the hour of our death. Amen.
00:30Pray for us sinners now in the hour of our death. Amen.
00:36Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
00:45Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
00:49Blessed Peter Snow. Pray for us.
01:05Blessed Christopher Wharton. Pray for us.
01:09Blessed Edward Fwing. Pray for us.
01:11Blessed Thomas Palliser. Pray for us.
01:14Blessed John Pybosh. Pray for us.
01:16Blessed Thurston Hunt. Pray for us.
01:19Renew in these days our Catholic faith, for which you gave your lives.
01:23Bring all our brothers and sisters to a knowledge and love of the truth.
01:27Make us zealous in the profession of our faith, so that we may continue and perfect the work which you undertook with so much labour and peril.
01:35Pray with us, and for us, and for the intentions we now lay before you.