 In the figure of Cristina, he again wants to represent an ideal, in this case an "extreme and rarefaction model of perfection, [which] reproposes, after a millennial pause, the mystical horizons of holy madness".The 'historical' value of this Life is profoundly doubtful (as can be seen also from the comparison with the information that Jacques de Vitry gives on Cristina in the "Prologue" of the aforementioned "Vita B. Mariae Oigniensis") but on the literary level for this type of texts does not count so much the 'historical' truth, but rather the model of sanctity that emerges from the work.The "Vita preclare virginis Margarete de Ypris" (or "Vita Beatae Margaritae Iprensis") is the second "autonomous" mystical hagiography of Thomas, dedicated to the life of Margaret of Ypres, a Belgian Blessed died in 1237.