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Margery was on the list of saints (& co.) commemorated at York Minster
for November 9th, too. There are no annotations such as 'minor
commemoration' on said list, so no immediately observable
differentiations between the degrees of commemorability of those on it.

Anna 


Sarah Salih wrote:
> 
> I visited King's Lynn yesterday, and discovered that Margery Kempe is honoured as a "minor
> commemoration" on 9th November.  I'm not sure of the precise degree of condescension implied by that.

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Anna Sander
Centre for Medieval Studies
University of York, UK