Franciscan Women Bundle

Retrieving a Living Tradition: Angelina of Montigiove: Francisan Tertiary, Beguine Roberta McKelvie, OSF An examination of the story of Angelina and the religious movement associated with her from within the Franciscan tradition, the author reads the source texts with a hermeneutic of suspicion and retrieval. The result provides a greatly expanded and revised perspective on the historical significance of Angelina as a Franciscan tertiary and Italian Beguine.  ISBN: 978-1-57659-131-4 The Life and Miracles of Margaret of Cortona by Thomas Renna Saint Margaret of Cortona is the light of the Third Order of Francis. Such is the theme of the most extensive biography of any Franciscan Tertiary in the Middle Ages. Margaret’s extraordinary career brings the historian closer to the early development of the Franciscans and the Order of Penance; it tells us much about how women saints were described, and about how civic cults of saints emerged. Another window, although a smaller one, opens to the