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Margaret Ball
Lady Mayoress of Dublic and Catholic martyr
Feast: 20 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
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.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- 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.