She was a young girl from Antioch in Pisidia. Her father was a pagan priest. She was converted to the Catholic Faith by one of the servants in her house, and dedicated herself to Jesus as a virgin for life. Her father drove her out of his house. She then became a shepherdess on a hillside. Later, she was captured and brought back, and ordered to marry a pagan. She refused, and after many tortures, her head was cut off by the sword. She is one of the fourteen Holy Helpers, and is invoked for kidney diseases.
St. Margaret as a shepherdess by Francisco de Zurbarán, (1631) source
