Saint Margaret of Cortona Biography (Saint Francis of Assisi)

(Saint Francis of Assisi)

In the year 1879

that Christ’s coming in history completes the arc of religiosity in human nature and action

A true social order can be built only on the basis of fraternity… Start with fraternity

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