Claim: The mother of Margaret "the Virgin" has died during childbirth; then his father is Aedesius, a pagan priest, disowned her after embracing Christianity.
Evidence: Her mother having died soon after her birth, Margaret was nursed by a Christian woman five or six leagues (6.9–8.3 miles) from Antioch. Having embraced Christianity and consecrated her virginity to God, Margaret was disowned by her father, adopted by her nurse, and lived in the country keeping sheep with her foster mother (in what is now Turkey). According to the version of the story in Golden Legend, she was a native of Antioch and the daughter of a pagan priest named Aedesius.