Margaret of Cortona was an Italian penitent of the Third Order of Saint Francis. She was born in Laviano, near Perugia, and died in Cortona. She was canonised in 1728.

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• reformed prostitutes
• people battling temptation
• sexual especially
• falsely accused people
• homeless people
• insanity
• orphans
• mental illness
• mentally ill people
• midwives
• single mothers
• people whose piety is ridiculed

c. 1247

22 February 1297 (aged 49–50)

canonized

16 May 1728

Pope Benedict XIII

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