According to the ancient Martyrologies, she suffered at Antioch in
Pisidia, in the last general persecution. She is said to have been
instructed in the faith by a Christian nurse, to have been persecuted
by her own father, a priest of the idols; and after many torments,
to have gloriously finished her martyrdom by the sword. Her name
occurs in the Litany inserted in the old Roman order, and in the
most ancient calendars of the Greeks. From the east her veneration
was exceedingly propagated in England, France, and Germany, in the
eleventh century, during the holy wars. Her body is now kept at
Monte-Fiascone in Tuscany. Vida, the glory of the Christian muses,
has honored St. Margaret who is one of the tutelar saints of Cremona,
his native city, with two hymns; begging of God through her prayers,
not long life, riches, or honors, but the grace of a happy death
and a holy life, that he might be admitted, with a devout and pious
heart, to praise God in the choir of his holy servants. See his
hymns, and Pinius the Bollandist, Julij, t. 5, p. 28.