Margaret of Cortona was an Italian penitent of the Third Order of
St. Francis. She was born in Laviano, near Perugia, and died in
Cortona. She was canonized in 1728. She is the patron saint of the
falsely accused; hoboes; homeless; insane; orphaned; mentally ill;
midwives; penitents; single mothers; reformed prostitutes; third
children; tramps. Saint Margaret of Cortona aroused Mauriac s
interest because very little is known about her in France and she
succumbed to human love and even had a child. It distracted him in
a time where the Germans were all over France and he followed her
wherever she led him. This is the story of one such encounter.
Mauriac, Francois 1885 1970, French writer. Mauriac achieved
success in 1922 and 1923 with Le Baiser au lepreux and Genitrix
(tr. of both in The Family, 1930). Generally set in or near his
native Bordeaux, his novels are imbued with his profound, though
nonconformist, Roman Catholicism. His characters exist in a
tortured universe; nature is evil and man eternally prone to sin.
His major novels are The Desert of Love (1925, tr. 1929), Therese
(1927, tr. 1928), and Vipers' Tangle (1932, tr. 1933). Other works
include The Frontenacs (1933, tr. 1961) and Woman of the Pharisees
(1941, tr. 1946); a life of Racine (1928) and of Jesus (1936, tr.
1937); and plays, notably Asmodee (1938, tr. 1939). Also a
distinguished essayist, Mauriac became a columnist for Figaro after
World War II. Collections of his articles and essays include
Journal, 1932 39 (1947, partial tr. Second Thoughts, 1961),
Proust's Way (1949, tr. 1950), and Cain, Where Is Your Brother?
(tr. 1962). Mauriac received the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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