Saint Margaret of Cortona Biography A true social order can

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

but not knowing

Considering theology and mysticism

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

(1595–1651) was a Dominican priest

Saint Margaret of Cortona Biography A true social order canBy 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