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Today we'll be telling the story of St Margaret of Antioch whose feast is celebrated on

July 20th.

St Margaret of Antioch was born in

289 in Antioch, Turkey.

The details of her life are uncertain,

and in 494, Pope Galatius I declared some of her story to be apocryphal, which means of unknown

authorship or doubtful origins.

Margaret was born to pagan parents and her mother died when she was a baby.

Her father sent her away to be raised by a nurse. The nurse was a

Christian and raised Margaret in the Christian faith. When she returned home as a

young teenager, her father rejected her because of her new Christian beliefs and she was sent back to

her nurse who became her adopted mother. Around the same time the Emperor Diocletian

began his persecution of Christians. St Margaret became a martyr at the age of 15 in the year

304 after refusing to deny Christ. The story of St. Margaret of Antioch

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