A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Margaret, St.
MARGARET, ST.,
A virgin, who is said to have suffered a martyrdom at Antioch, in 275. She is not mentioned by the ancient martyrologists, and she did not become famous till the eleventh century. A festival is held in honour of her memory on the 20th. of July. The orientals reverence her under the name of St. Pelagia, or St. Marina, and the western church under that of St. Geruma, or St. Margaret.