# 16 - A SERIOUS REPORT ON BLESSED CASTELLO, O.P.

 # 16 - A SERIOUS REPORT ON BLESSED CASTELLO, O.P.

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM, FRI. MARCH 19/21

 

THE LIFE OF BLESSED MARGARET CASTELLO0, O.P.

By Father William R. Bonneville O.P. Tan Books, Carolina, 2016, Chapter 7, p. 30-31

 

    In September, the victorious Parisio returned home. He disbanded his army and then made a full report of the war to the podesta and State Council.... In the days that followed, Emilia undertook to bring her husband up to date on local happenings. In doing so, she came in due time to the report of the pilgrims that miraculous cures were taking place at Castello.  Parisio burst out laughing.

 

    "Don't tell me, my dear wife, that you believe in miracles!" "Well after all," she replied defensively, "everybody believed St. Francis possessed a remarkable healing power." "True, while he was alive." Some few men seemed to have such power. But since this Giacomo is dead, it would mean that miracles are taking place. Miracles presupposes that God is deeply interested in us - which, you know as well as I do, is sheer nonsense."

 

    Nonsense or not, fresh reports continued to reach Mewcatello with almost every traveler. Some of these men were well educated; occasionally there was a professor, or a lawyer, or even a physician. When men of their standing insisted that cures were being effected at the tomb of Fra Giacomo, Parisio began to waver a little in his incredulity. His wife was quick to take advantage of his change of attitude.

 

    "Parisio, why don't we take Margaret to Citta di Castello? Who knows? Perhaps she will be cured both of her blindness and her deformities! At least there is a possibility." "It is a rough hard journey over the mountains," replied her husband hesitantly. "I can stand it. If we leave early in the morning, let us say about an hour of Prime, we should reach there there certainly by sunset." 

 

    Emelia awaited anxiously for his reply. She never seen Citta di Castello, and for that reason was eager to go there.And of course one could never tell, there was a possibility of Margaret being cured.

But Parisio still hesitated.... After a few moments' reflection he added briskly: "Very well, then, we'll go. Today is the 20th of September, and you be ready by the 24th? Good! We will depart at early dawn, before the citizens are astir."

 

    Now tat she had gained her end, Lady Emelia became somewhat uneasy. "Of course, Parisio, we have no assurance that Margaret will be cured. But I have heard the Franciscan friar, who preaches in the piazza, declare all one needs is faith. Margaret certainly has plenty of that!"

 

    "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it, my dear," "replied her husband, who was now in sudden good humor. "Remember: Thursday morning at early dawn. Emilia, I think, that this pilgrimage will definitely solve our problem. The Captain left the room.

 

    Lady Emilia shivered as if a sudden chill had pervaded the apartment. She did not understand, nor dared she ask, the meaning of his remark, and her recollection of his many acts of ruthlessness did nothing to assure. That night before the pilgrimage, Lady Emilia did not sleep too well... not withstanding, at first cockcrow she awoke and hastened to arouse her husband and Margaret....

 

George H. Kubeck

 

    "As an unwanted deformed child would she not be 'the saint' for our time ... 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 for those who invoke her."