Summary: Margaret Clitherow’s life - and death - were shaped by the religious upheavals of the Protestant Reformation in Elizabethan (16th century) England. A devoted Catholic in a time and place where Catholicism was illegal, she played a powerful role in a kind of “spy” network secretly harboring Catholic priests in the city of York. When a young boy living in her household exposed her secrets, she was imprisoned and then executed by the gruesome method of being pressed to death. Join eminent historian Professor Peter Marshall of Warwick University to learn the true story of this fascinating and problematic saint.
