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We're happy to present another installment of true heroes.

Stories of the Lives of the Saints, delivered by Father Thomas Tam.

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Now here's Father Tam.

I thank the Almighty God that in sending me so great an affliction in the last hour of my life

that was purify me from my sins as I hope by thy mercy. Hello my friends and welcome to true

heroes. Today we are going to look at St. Margaret, Queen of Scots, and her dedication to the poor

and the sanctification of the people of her country.

Let us begin her story.

St. Margaret of Scotland, or Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess born in Hungary to Princess Agatha of Hungary and English Prince Edward the Exile around 1045.

Her siblings, Christina and Edgar, the Atheling, were also born in Hungary around this time.

Margaret and her family returned to England when she was 10 years old, and her father was

called back as a potential successor to the throne.

However, Edward died immediately after the family arrived, but Margaret and Edgar continued

to reside at the English court.

Margaret's family fled from William the Conqueror after his victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Her widowed mother set out to take her children north to Northumbria.

Tradition says Agatha decided to lead Northumbria and return to the continent, but her family ship got caught in a storm.

The storm drove their ship even more north to Scotland, where they were shipwrecked in 1068.

The spot they landed on is now known as, quote, St. Margaret's Hope, unquote.

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