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Margaret Ball
Lady Mayoress of Dublic and Catholic martyr
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Feast: 20 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1515
Died
1584
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
In the same place, the commemoration of Blessed Margaret Ball, martyr, who, left a widow, was arrested, on the denunciation of her own son, for having received many hunted priests into her house, and, after various tortures, died in her seventies on a day that has remained unknown.
The miracles
As a martyr she was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 20 June as a Dublin widow, denounced by her own son for sheltering hunted priests, who died in prison after torture.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 20 June (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q540836 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Margaret Ball (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.