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Born blind and physically deformed, Margaret of Metola is abandoned by her parents in the city of Castello and becomes a ray of light for the people of the city, befriending and healing the needy and the ill in this story of thirteenth-century Europe
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Born blind and deformed in 13th-century Italy, cast out by her prominent family, Margaret became a legend because of her exceptional sanctity and benevolence. This hagiographic rendering by the author of The Sutburys follows Margaret from her walled-up childhood to her adoption by the charitable, well-born women known as the mantellate because of the cloaks they wear in the tradition of St. Dominic. Margaret's sufferings and abuse are shown transmuted into a spirituality attracting people from all levels of society. Succeeding in the main, Hill's delineation of a historical figure in cruel times nevertheless comes perilously close at times to sentimentality.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherRandom House Value Publishing
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0517084961
- ISBN 13 9780517084960
- BindingHardcover
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