Margaret Colona

Margaret Colona

Blessed Margaret Colona was born in Rome in the 13th century; the exact date is unknown. Her parents died in Rome when she was still a young girl, and she was left to the care of her two brothers, the youngest of whom was raised to the cardinalate by Pope Nicholas III in 1278. Having resolutely refused the proposal of marriage made to her by the chief magistrate of Rome, she retired to a lonely retreat near Palestrina where she passed her time in practices of piety and penance. Her charity towards the poor was unbounded, and she was thought to be miraculously rewarded.

Through the influence of her brother, Cardinal Colonna, Blessed Margaret obtained the canonical erection of a community of Urbanist Poor Clares at Palestrina, of which she most probably became superioress. Seven years before her death she was attacked with a fearful and painful ulcer, which till the end of her life, she bore with the most sublime and generous resignation.

She died in Rome, September 20, 1284.

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