# 1 - A SERIOUS REPORT ON BLESSED MARGARET CASTELLO O.P.
IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - THURS. NOV. 19, 2020
THE LIFE OF BLESSED MARGARET CASTELLO (1287-1320)
BY FATHER WILLIAM R. BONNEVILLE , O.P. TAN BOOKS, CHARLOTTE, CAROLINA, 2014, 114 PAGES
Blessed Margaret (1287-1320) was born a hunchback, midget, blind, lame and ugly. When she was 6, her proud, noble parents walled her up inside a chapel. She could not get out, but could attend Mass and and receive the Sacraments.
After 14 years of imprisonment, her parents took her to a shrine to pray for a cure.When no cure was forthcoming, they abandonment her. She became a lay Dominican and spent the rest of her life in prayer and works of mercy.
When she died at 33, the townspeople thronged to her funeral and demanded that "the saint" be buried in a tomb inside the church. The priest protested, but a crippled girl was miraculously cured at the funeral, the people had their way. Blessed Margaret's story is one of the most moving we have ever read. Her body is still in corrupt.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Father William Raymond Bonniell,O.P. has had a long, fruitful life, a great part of it spent as a Dominican priest and scholar (ordained in 1914). He has been a renowned preacher and retreat master, and was Director of the Preachers' Institute in Washington, D.C.
Now in his 90's, Father Bonneville is suffering the infirmities of age, and nearly blind. He resides at St. Vincent at St. Vincent Ferrer Priory in New York City.
Father Bonniwell spent a good deal of time in Italy gathering information on Blessed Margaret. He is very grateful to the many persons in Cita di Castello for their unstinting efforts to assist him in his research every time he visited their city. In the region once called Massa Trabaria (Mercastello, Metola, Saint'Angelo in Valo, etc.) the eager cooperation he received resulted in the unearthing valuable data not given by the medieval biographers of Blessed Margaret, To all his Italian "assistance" who helped make this book possible, Father Bonniwell offers warmest and deepest thanks.
Other works by Father Bonniwell include Liturgical Spirit of Lent, History of the Dominican Liturgy, Interpreting Sunday Mass, Martyrology of the Second Order of Preachers, and What Think You of Christ?
Blessed Margaret of Castello, O.P. Crusade
... As an unwanted deformed child would she not be 'the saint' ... a special patron of the unborn the handicapped, the disabled, the social outcasts... the patron of the UNWANTED? Will you not join in a crusade for her canonization? She will never fail to help those who invoke her.
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