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354 THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST ’
IV
ONLY OF THIS WORLD
As she grew up everybody said of her: “She is
going to be a saint, a saint.”
Her name was Margherita Cornado. She lived
in Girgenti on the south side of Sicily, in the great
mining district. When she was a child her father
was a miner; later he inherited a little money, so
that he no longer needed to work.
There was a little, narrow, miserable roof-garden
on Margherita Cornado’s house in Girgenti. A
small and steep stairway led up to it, and one had
to creep out through a low door. But it was well
worth the trouble. When you reached the top you
saw not only a mass of roofs, but the whole air over
the town was gaily crowded with the towers and
fagades of all Girgenti’s churches. And every
facade and every tower was a quivering lace-work of
images, of loggias, of glowing canopies.
And outside the town there was a wide plain
which sloped gently down towards the sea, and a
semicircle of hills that guarded the plain. The
plain was glittering red; the ocean was blue as
enamel; the hillsides were yellow; it was a whole
orient of warmth and color.
But there was even more to be seen. Ancient
temples were dotted about the valley. Ruins and
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