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St. Margaret of Castello — Her Parents Sealed Her in a Room. Then Left Her With Strangers.
In this episode of Everyday Saints, a Catholic podcast about the real lives of the saints, host John O'Connor tells the story of St. Margaret of Castello — one of the newest saints in the Catholic Church, canonized by Pope Francis in 2021, and one of the most overlooked.
She was born blind, severely disabled, and a dwarf. Her own wealthy parents were so ashamed of her that they sealed her into a small room beside a chapel when she was six years old. When a pilgrimage they took her on didn't produce the miracle they were hoping for — they left her there. In a city she had never been to. Among…
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