found: Visions of sainthood in medieval Rome, 2017:ECIP t.p. (Margherita Colonna) galley (ca. 1255/80)
found: Visions of sainthood in medieval Rome, 2017:pages 1-4 ("Margherita Colonna was born around 1255 to Oddone Colonna and his wife Margherita Orsini ... The estimate of Margherita's birth year is based on internal evidence in Vita I"; after parents' death by approximately 1265, she was placed under the guardianship of her brothers Giacomo, named a cardinal in 1278, and Giovanni, a senator of Rome and the author of the first hagiographic "Life" (Vita I) of Margherita; around 1272, avoiding a betrothal, she vowed virginity and fled to the family compound on Mt. Prenestino (modern Castel San Pietro), near Palestrina, where she lived an ascetic life with a group of followers, in "an informal community, 'with no abbess or superior,' as Margherita herself remarked"; considered formally entering the Order of St. Clare in Assisi, but was prevented by illness; moved briefly with her followers to the Church of St. Mary in Vulturella (modern Mentorella), but was was prevented from staying by the local Conti lord; worked in a charitable woman's household in Rome; returned to Mt. Prenestino, and died there, December 30, 1280) page 66 (quoting manuscript of "Vita I": "Incipit vita beate Margarite virginis cognomine de Columpna")
found: Campbell, J. "Margaret Colonna, Bl.," in New Catholic encyclopedia, 2nd ed., v. 9, 2003, accessed online via Gale Virtual Reference Library, February 7, 2018:page 148 (Margaret Colonna, Bl.; mystic; born Rome, Italy, approximately 1254-1255; left Palestrina on March 6, 1273, for the castle of San Pietro, where she took the habit and adopted the way of life of the Poor Clares without actually entering into the order; experienced "mystical visions, and after her death many miracles were observed at her grave"; "Margaret's cult became widespread, but all proceedings for her canonization came to a standstill during the crisis of 1297-98 between the Colonna and Boniface VIII. In the 15th century her relics were venerated in San Silvestro ... In 1847 an immemorial cult was approved, and the following year her feast was included in the Franciscan Breviary"; feast November 7 (formerly December 30))
found: Mirabile website, February 7, 2018(Margarita Columna, Ord. S. Clarae Romae 1255-1284; feast 30 December)
found: Gallonio, Antonio. Historia delle sante vergini romane, 1591, via Achive.org, February 9, 2018:page 302 (caption title: "Historia della B. Margarita, vergine roman"; "nata della famiglia de' Colonnesi") page 333 (died December 30) page 338 (died around the year 1286)
