Blessed Margaret of Castello
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- Also known as
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Margaret of Citta-di-Castello
Margaret of Metola
- Memorial
- 13 April
- Profile
- Born a blind, lame, deformed, hunchback midget.
When she was six years old, her noble parents walled her up beside a chapel; she could not get out, but could attend Mass and receive the Sacraments.
After 14 years of imprisonment, her parents took her to a shrine to pray for a cure.
When none occurred, they abandoned her.
She became a lay Dominican, and spent her life in prayer and charity.
When she died, the townspeople thronged her funeral, and demanded she be buried in a tomb inside the church.
The priest protested, but a crippled girl was miraculously cured at the funeral, and he consented.
- Born
- 1287 at Meldola, Vado, Italy
- Died
- 13 April 1320 of natural causes;
body incorrupt
- Beatified
- 19 October 1609 by Pope Paul V
- Canonized
- pending
- Patronage
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against poverty;
disabled people;
handicapped people;
impoverishment;
people rejected by religious orders;
physically challenged people;
poverty;
Right To Life groups
- Prayers
- Compassionate God, you gave your divine light to Blessed Margaret who was blind from birth, that with the eye of her heart she might contemplate you alone.
Be the light of our eyes that we may turn from what is evil and reach the home of never-ending light.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
- General Calendar of the Order of Preachers
- Additional Information
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Google Directory
Blessed Margaret of Castello Shrine, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Catholic Online
Coaching from Heaven, by Lori Hadacek, BFA
Kirken i Norge norwegian
Novena to Blessed Margaret de Castello
Rejected by Man but Beloved of God, by the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia
Lives of the Saints, by Edmund LoPresti
Priests for Life, by Madeline Pecora Nugent, SFO
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
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