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St. John, the Evangelist, who is described in the Gospels as “the beloved disciple”, was a Galilean, son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother to St. James the Greater, both of whom were fishermen.

St. Margaret Cortona, was born in 1247 at Laviano, a small time about twelve miles from Cortona: Italy. When seven or eight years old, Margaret’s saintly mother died. In time her father remarried, and Margaret was treated harshly by her stepmother