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SAINT MARGARET, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND AND WIDOW Margaret, queen of the Scots, glorious descendant of the English kings from the father and from the Caesars from the mother, she was even more illustrious for the Christian virtue. She was born around 1046 in Hungary, where her father was at that time exiled, after passing her childhood in the greatest piety, she went to England with her father, called there by the uncle St. Edward to ascend to the throne of her ancestors. Soon, following the reverses of her family and left the shores of England, a storm, or rather, a design of divine providence led her to the coasts of Scotland. There, married, to obey to the mother, Malcom III king of the Scots who was caught by her beautiful qualities, she made herself wonderfully useful to the whole kingdom with works of sanctity and piety for the whole thirty years that she reigned.