Saint Margaret of Cortona
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Saint Margaret of Cortona

  1. 123 pages
  2. English
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Saint Margaret of Cortona

About this book

The Nobel Prize–winning author's stirring biography of the thirteenth-century Italian penitent who become the patron saint of the homeless.
 
Born in 1247 to a farming family in a small village outside Perugia, Margaret of Cortona was willful and reckless in her youth. At age seventeen, she became a wealthy man's mistress—even bearing his son out of wedlock. But her life of sin ended when she found her lover murdered.
 
Devoting herself to prayer and penance, Margaret eventually joined the Third Order of St. Francis and took a vow of poverty. She established a hospital for the poor and homeless at Cortona. On divine command, she challenged her own bishop for his lavish and warlike lifestyle. Canonized by Pope Benedict XIII in 1728, she became a patron saint of the downtrodden, including the falsely accused, homeless, orphaned, and mentally ill, as well as midwives, penitents, single mothers, reformed prostitutes, and third children.
 
For François Mauriac, Saint Margaret of Cortona became a source of fascination and solace during the Nazi occupation of France. During that time, feeling himself and all his countrymen to be among the downtrodden, he wrote this biography.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Preface
  4. CHAPTER I - Too Young and Too Pretty
  5. CHAPTER II - The Delicious and Criminal Way of the World
  6. CHAPTER III - The Preferred Sinner
  7. CHAPTER IV - The Lover Murdered
  8. CHAPTER V - Under Nathanael’s Fig-Tree
  9. CHAPTER VI - Margaret’s Stages
  10. CHAPTER VII - Ishmael or the Child Martyr
  11. CHAPTER VIII - The Temptation of Disgrace
  12. CHAPTER IX - The Director Directed
  13. CHAPTER X - The Child of Sin with the Cowl
  14. CHAPTER XI - The Gloomy Daughter of Joyous Francis
  15. CHAPTER XII - A Fearful Grace
  16. CHAPTER XIII - The Dishevelled Magdalene
  17. CHAPTER XIV - The Wild Act of Love
  18. CHAPTER XV - Poor Soul, Never Assured
  19. CHAPTER XVI - Each Sheep Is the Preferred One But Does Not Know It
  20. CHAPTER XVII - The Sinner Who Looks No Higher than the Cross
  21. CHAPTER XVIII - The Judgment of Saint John of the Cross
  22. CHAPTER XIX - The Martyrdom of the Curious Beast
  23. CHAPTER XX - The Saint Is Given to the Devotees
  24. CHAPTER XXI - The Impossible Adaptation to the World
  25. CHAPTER XXII - Holiness, Source of All Joy
  26. CHAPTER XXIII - Abandoned by Men and the Father
  27. CHAPTER XXIV - Christ’s Pity for His Crucified Servant
  28. CHAPTER XXV - The Eternal Bourgeoise
  29. CHAPTER XXVI - Doubts About This Indictment
  30. CHAPTER XXVII - Margaret and the Demon
  31. CHAPTER XXVIII - God’s Words or the Demon’s
  32. CHAPTER XXIX - Margaret Before the Host
  33. CHAPTER XXX - Margaret’s Last Look at Herself and the World
  34. CHAPTER XXXI - The Caryatids of Grief
  35. CHAPTER XXXII - The Temptation of Pathos
  36. CHAPTER XXXIII - The Stages of the Ascent Toward the Father
  37. CHAPTER XXXIV - Death and Last Ecstasy
  38. CHAPTER XXXV - Temptation Before a Corpse
  39. CHAPTER XXXVI - Examination of Conscience
  40. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  41. Copyright Page