St. Margaret of Antioch
St. Margaret of Antioch
Nothing certain is known of her, but according to her untrustworthy legend, she was the daughter of a pagan priest at Antioch in Pisidia. Also known as Marina, she was converted to Christianity, whereupon she was driven from home by her father. She became a shepherdess and when she spurned the advances of Olybrius, the prefect, who was infatuated with her beauty, he charged her with being a Christian. He had her tortured and then imprisoned, and while she was in prison she had an encounter with the devil in the form of a dragon. According to the legend, he swallowed her, but the cross she carried in her hand so irritated his throat that he was forced to disgorge her (she is patroness of childbirth). The next day, attempts were made to execute her by fire and then by drowning, but she was miraculously saved and converted thousands of spectators witnessing her ordeal-all of whom were promptly executed. Finally, she was beheaded. That she existed and was martyred are probably true; all else is probably fictitious embroidery and added to her story, which was immensely popular in the Middle Ages, spreading from the East all over Western Europe. She is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, and hers was one of the voices heard by Joan of Arc. Her feast day is July 20th.
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Next month is the expected date of my delivery. St. Margareth, please help me during my delivery that my life and my baby's life will be safe and I hope that in my delivery is through normal birth and I would not be difficult to give birth through normal. Please help my baby be healthy and normal.
St. Margaret, please help me with my pregnancy. My husband and I struggled to get pregnant and now the baby appears to be slow-growing. Please intercede for us that this pregnancy will proceed healthily and that we may have a healthy, beautiful child when it is born. Amen!
Sweet St Margaret please watch over my daughter and the child within her womb. She lost her first son at 30 weeks of pregnancy.. I pray for your intercession to protect her and this child of God, to see them thru a healthy and safe pregnancy and delivery. I ask this is my saviors name, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Dear St. Margaret of Antioch, I plea for the fast recovery of my daughter and my 5 and half months old granddaughter in her womb. I pray for her safe delivery of our little princess without complications. Please be with her and guide her during this moments of her pregnancy. Take care of them. In Jesus name, Amen
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Saint Margaret of Antioch,
Please help me to refrain from sin and temptation every day and night. Help me to be strong and wise like you were.
In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
Amen.
St. Margaret of Antioch, please pray for this baby I carry in my womb. I am having many problems and doubts. I lost my daughter 6 months ago during my final week of pregnancy and now I am so scared for the life of this baby. Please pray for his or her safety and to be born healthy. Amen.
St Margaret of Antioch,patron saint on pregancy I love your story,and will spread it,I ask that you pray for me and keep my early foetus safe and allow my pregancy to go full term healthy,please give me the strength and courage I need to stay positive,thank you St Margaret Amenxx
St. Margaret you precious pearl in our Father's crown. Have mercy and pray for me a sinner in my hour of need. Pray for my healing and bring me the joy of your story renewed. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
St. Margret of Antioch, I am being confronted with a very difficult situation. I pray for your intercession, to doscern God's will and to act accordingly.
St. Margaret, please pray for me and the baby that takes refuge inside me. Pray that my baby will born healthy and God-fearing. Thank you dearly for your intercession!
st Margraret of Antioch,pls, convey my family`s prayers to God most high,
Pray for me of spiritual growth,wisdom,blessings and God`s power to overcome satanic attacks and temtation.make my body as naket wire to all evil things.Amen
Dear Saint Margaret,
Please intercede for me in my quest to be rid of all temptation and sin.
Dear St. Margaret of Antioch, pray for all women who hope to bear and bring forth to the world a perfectly healthy baby. This is my petition for my daughter too. Bless her abundantly and wholly and always. Likewise, dear Saint Margaret of Antioch pray for the restoration to perfect health all children who suffer from mental and physical difficulties. I love your story St. Margaret.
St. Margaret of Antioch. Please pray for my unborn baby. Please pray that the doctors are wrong about it not being a viable pregnancy. I am so scared and I know in my heart that I found you on the eve of your feast day and also the eve of my ultrasound to give me strength. Amen.
I FIRMLY believe she interceded for my Daughter and me while she was sick in utero(she would die or be on dialysis from birth according to specialist) with Kidney problems and I with a thin uterus prone to rupture . Healthy baby ( doc said pinkest healthiest newborn he'd EVER seen) and not a SINGLE problem with her kidneys. I also had an easy recovery . My daughter bears St. Margaret's name as her middle name in gratitude for her intercession.
St. Margaret of Antioch, patron saint of pregnancy, labour and childbirth, please pray for me, that i may safely deliver my baby without complications of any kind. i know i found you this day to grant me support and hope that am never alone.
i had been reading stories about the lives of the saints when i was in the seminary for 12 yrs...after more than a decade,.i was so happy when i came across with such stories online.... it is so....inspiring.... refreshing...... ... thanks a lot. ....hope others will have time too to read them every day... every morning.... as an appetizer of the day...God bless
St. Margret of Antioch, please pray for our family, and especially for our four girl children. Thank you!
Saint Margaret, Thank you for watching over us. Please be with me as I help women through pregnancy & give birth everyday. I want to be the best midwife I can be. Please Saint Margaret bless me with a baby of my own, I promise to be a wonderful mother. I know you've come to me today to show me support. Amen