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Also known as

• Margaret of Cesolo
• Margaret la Picena
• Margherita….

Memorial

• 5 August

Profile

Born poor. Married at 15 to an Italian gentleman, and abused for years by her husband for her attachment to the Church and her perceived ministry to the poor. She gave up shoes, dressed and appeared as a beggar to better associate herself with the poor. Widowed.

Born

• 1325 at Cesolo, San Severino, Italy

Died

• 5 August 1395 of natural causes

Patronage

• brides
• difficult marriages
• victims of abuse
• widows

MLA Citation

• “Saint Margaret the Barefooted“. CatholicSaints.Info. 3 November 2017. Web. 19 April 2019. <>