Story: Blessed Margaret of Castello, a Holy Woman With a Beautiful Soul in a Broken Body, Whose Catholic Feast Day in 2016 Is Wednesday, April 13

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She was born a blind hunchback with one leg longer than the other. When 6 her parents locked her away, then when she was older abandoned her on the street. But full of love for others, she even performed many miracles, and after her death because of her holiness, the Church beatified her.
see www.marypages.com/MargaretofCastello.htm
 
I love her. Her biography was the only book I’ve ever read in my entire almost seven decades of life that made me cry.

I have a first class relic of her too that I got a very long time ago.

Thanks for the reminder that tomorrow is her feast day. 🙂
 
Amazing. We need more people like her today; both willing to take on the “imperfect”, and to live with being handicapped.
 
Lormar said:
I love her. Her biography was the only book I’ve ever read in my entire almost seven decades of life that made me cry.

I have a first class relic of her too that I got a very long time ago.

Thanks for the reminder that tomorrow is her feast day. 🙂
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Wow! A first class relic! May I ask what that relic is, and how you obtained it?
 
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Wow! A first class relic! May I ask what that relic is, and how you obtained it?
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I got it from the Dominicans. That was long before the internet and the dangers of selling relics on Ebay. It’s not so easy to get an authentic first class relic today.

The relic I have is a piece of her bone. I venerated it in your name (well, your user name :)) and asked her to help you. :)👍
 
You know what touched me the most about Blessed Margaret? Her parents were heartless. When they just abandoned her in that church (they didn’t even tell her they were abandoning her, they just left her there, and she waited and waited for them to come get her), after asking her to pray to Our Lord for her to be cured of her maladies and the parents returned and saw no cure had taken place, she did not become bitter or resentful. Instead, she thanked God for them and appreciated the fact that they had taken care of her for as long as they did.

How many of us could or would do that same? :o
 
Lormar said:
I got it from the Dominicans. That was long before the internet and the dangers of selling relics on Ebay. It’s not so easy to get an authentic first class relic today.

The relic I have is a piece of her bone. I venerated it in your name (well, your user name :)) and asked her to help you. :)👍
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Oh, wow! Thank you very much! I’m touched. 🙂 I will include you and your intentions in my next Rosary as thanks.
 
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