St Margaret of Scotland. Saint. Political refugee. Englishwoman in Scotland. Hungarian-rooted Anglo-Saxon. Wife of a king.The reading from Proverbs known for 'Who can find a virtuous woman?' is set in the Scottish lectionary. Rather full of references to home-making and domestic bliss. Getting her children up 'happy.' Not very PC - to aspire to the good favours of her husband. I've read it at a funeral or two, but it seems to jar to the modern mind.
But she was a holy, rooted woman, who touched the lives of all those she met for good. From North to South Queensferry, to Dunfermline where she was queen, she cared for the ordinary people, because God cared for them.
She is universally popular in our churches. A window from Dunoon on the left, from 1938, and a window on the right from Rothesay from 1907 place her in the affections of these two west coast congregations. Who can find a virtuous woman? We seem to have done so...
Interestingly, this post looks like an old-fashioned telegram from 'Who can find...' on. We had the lesson at my mother's funeral - her name was Margaret, and we thought she would be grinning at us.
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