Feast of St. Margaret Traditions

[Father Bill]

Nothing about wearing kilts or anything like that, but since you ask about traditions, here's the backgrounder:

Saint Margaret of Scotland
Also known as

Margaret of Wessex

Memorial

16 November formerly 10 June
16 June in Scotland

Profile

Granddaughter of King Edmund Ironside of England. Great-niece of Saint Stephen of Hungary. Born in Hungary while her family was in exile due to the Danish invasion of England, she still spent much of her youth in the British Isles. While fleeing the invading army of William the Conqueror in 1066, her family’s ship wrecked on the Scottish coast. They were assisted by King Malcolm III Canmore of Scotland, whom Margaret married in 1070. Queen of Scotland. They had eight children including Saint Maud, wife of Henry I, and Saint David of Scotland. Margaret founded abbeys and used her position to work for justice and improved conditions for the poor.

Born

c.1045 in Hungary

Died

16 November 1093 at Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, four days after her husband and son died in defense of the castle buried in front of the high altar at Dunfermline, Scotland relics later removed to a nearby shrine the bulk of her relics were destroyed in stages during the Protestant Reformation and the French Revolution

Canonized

1251 by Pope Innocent IV

Patronage

against the death of children for learning parents of large families queens widows — Dunfermline, Scotland Scotland

Representation

queen dispensing gifts to the poor, often while carrying a black cross