Saint Margaret of Cortona McNabb the role of Mary

the role of Mary

the more perfectly we shall understand that part of it which is the result of divine intervention

it is explainable only as the will of God

that climate which we all long for and in our several ways strive to reach—the region where truth is eternal and man immortal and flowers never fade

Every one that is of the truth

Saint Margaret of Cortona McNabb the role of MaryBy 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