St Margaret Clitheroe

St Margaret Clitheroe, depicted in a stained-glass window

There is a narrow lane in York known as "The Shambles", which is where, in mediaeval times, the butchers plied their trade. Half-way along on the right is a doorway leading into the house (and shrine) of St Margaret Clitheroe. Visitors can view a single room - presumably the rest of the building is in private ownership - and read the horrifying story of a woman who died in agony rather than see her family brought to poverty. Along the way she refused to recant her Catholic faith.

I would love to have finished the film with a picture of her hand, which is kept in a nearby convent, but its guardians appear to fear that taking a photograph will adversely affect the relic's "mana", so though I have seen it, you can't.