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Saint Margaret of Hungary

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Religious Figure

The Resume

Why she might be annoying:

    She was royalty.
    She entered the convent when she was only four years old because her parents promised to dedicate one of their children to the religious life if they were successful in their battle against a Mongol invasion.
    Despite her name, she was actually born in modern day Croatia and not Hungary.
    She practiced extreme mortification that may have led to her death at the early age of twenty-eight.
    Despite having no less than 74 miracles attributed to her intercession, (the Catholic Church only requires two to be canonized) including one person being raised from the dead she was not beatified until 1789 and not canonized until 1943 by Pope Pius XII.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Margaret Island on the Danube River in Hungary is named after her.
    She resisted attempts at entering her into a political marriage.
    She was the ninth of ten children.
    She was born in an actual castle, the famed Klis fortress.
    She was extremely humble and hard-working and one of her biographers wrote that she, '...went out of her way to perform the most menial tasks and the most exacting labors on behalf of the squalid poor and the most advanced hospital cases.'

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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 213 Votes: 47.89% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 10 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 96 Votes: 51.04% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 156 Votes: 48.72% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 48 Votes: 50.0% Annoying