Saint Margaret of Cortona McNabb Thérèse of Lisieux

Thérèse of Lisieux

In Liturgical Preludes

held from 1545 to 1563

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

Saint Margaret of Cortona McNabb Thérèse of LisieuxBy 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