ONE of York’s most famous historical figures will be remembered in a procession through the city next Saturday.

In what has now became an annual event, a pilgrimage for Saint Margaret Clitherow will see Catholics take part in a Solemn Latin mass at St Wilfrid’s Church in Duncombe Place, before processing through the city.

Paul Waddington, of the Latin Mass Society, organisers of the event, said: “We held a similar event last year which was very successful and attracted about 700 or 800 people from all over England.”

The mass will be offered in the presence of the Bishop of Middlesbrough at 1.30pm and will then be followed by the procession which will go past the shrine to Margaret Clitherow, in Shambles, before making its way to Ouse Bridge, where she was killed.

The day will end at the Church of the English Martyrs in Dalton Terrace, where there will be devotions and Benediction at about 4pm.

Margaret Clitherow was born in York around 1553 and, at the age of 18 converted to Catholicism; secretly carrying out Mass in the family home in Shambles.

She was accused of harbouring Catholic priests and eventually sentenced to death.

She was declared a saint in 1970.