An awesome Saint with an awesome story that will provide help to all of us sinners, and her feast day was yesterday! Happy Feast St. Margaret!Lived From 1247 to 1297
Hometown: Laviano, Italy
Feast Day: May 16th
Margaret was born into a small farming village. Her mother died when she was young and was often mistreated under the care of her father and stepmother. At the age of 17 she ran off with a lover of hers. They lived together for 9 years and had one son together, but never married. One day her lover was murdered in the woods, which she took as a sign from God and took on a complete spiritual conversion. Margaret took her son and returned to her father's house, but they were refused shelter. They were homeless until Margaret followed an inner voice that told her to take refuge in the nearby town of Cortona. There she found a group of Franciscan friars, who took them in. Her son eventually became one of the friars and her a Third Order Franciscan. Through this entire journey she fought temptations to return to her life before and find other lovers for herself. She struggled so much that she once wanted to tear her own face with a knife, but a priest forbid it. From 1277 on she sought only a close relationship with Christ and was often given visions of Christ. She founded a hospital for the sick and her own convent before she died in 1297.
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