Another impressive church from the Gateway City, St. Margaret of Scotland is a fixture in the Shaw neighborhood on the south side. In over two and a half years of living near St. Louis, I only visited this church once, on a Saturday afternoon well before Mass. To add insult to injury, all the lights were off, really limiting the photo ops.
A quick consultation of Butler's Lives of the Saints states that St. Margaret (d. 1093) was instrumental in having churches and monasteries built while Queen of Scotland. In a position full of pomp and prestige, the Queen also devoted herself to a life of piety, influencing her husband and children to do the same.[1]
This is another church that is better-covered in the blog Rome of the West. That post can be found here.
St. Margaret of Scotland Parish
3854 Flad Avenue, Saint Louis, MO 63110http://www.stmargaretstl.org/
Additional Sources
[1] Butler, Fr. Alban. Lives of the Saints, Charlotte, NC: TAN Books, 1995 reprint of 1955 edition, 217 - 218.
