LIFE AND WISDOM OF MARGARET OF SCOTLAND, THE

Saints Alive: The saints are gurus for our times. Despite historical distance, bizarre stories about them, and their obvious human frailty, their lives reflect a deep level of truth. They have become icons to last through the ages, pointing beyond themselves to profound truths about the spiritual world and our place within it. Saints Alive introduces the stories of the saints, reflects on their meaning for today and shows that true wisdom is timeless.

Margaret of Scotland, the saintly queen, was a reconciler and a reformer, a scholar and an embroideress, a wife and a mother. In her, the line of the old Saxon kings of England was linked with the new dynasty of the Norman kings. We know about her because her biographer, Turgot, wrote a lyrical account of her life. She stands at a key point in history and is pivotal to the unraveling of its meaning.