Saint Margaret of Cortona Biography (Saint Francis of Assisi)

(Saint Francis of Assisi)

but not knowing

as the world—particularly in the West—has made its appetites like unto gods

such that man can fulfill his created purpose to know God truly

the child of God… (Edoardo Aldo Cerrato

Saint Margaret of Cortona Biography (Saint Francis of Assisi)By Franois Mauriac Where sin abounded, grace did more abound. A mistress at the age of seventeen, a mystic at her death, Saint Margaret of Cortona exemplifies these words of Saint Paul. Born in 1247 to a farming family in the village of Laviano, Margaret was just seven years old when her mother died, leaving her headstrong and restless daughter without the steadying influence her character and temperament needed. At seventeen, Margaret took a lover