St Margaret Clitherow was a wife, mother of three, and faithful, courageous Catholic in England during the continuing persecution of the faithful. She risked her life repeatably by hiding priests and having Mass offered in houses she rented to avoid surveillance. Investigated after her son went abroad to study for the priesthood, she was arrested and eventually tortured to death by pressing with a great weight with a sharp rock under her back. Her feast is celebrated in England on May 4.