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The wax figure of Saint Clare of Assisi at the Basilica of Saint Clare, in Assisi Clare was canonized on 26 September 1255 by Pope Alexander IV , [ 20 ] [ 21 ] and her feast day was immediately inserted in the General Roman Calendar for celebration on 12 August, the day after her death, as 11 August was already assigned to Saints Tiburtius and ...
Chiara Offreduccio (16 July 1194 – 11 August 1253), known as Clare of Assisi (sometimes spelled Clara, Clair or Claire; Italian: Chiara d'Assisi), is an Italian saint who was one of the first followers of Francis of Assisi. Inspired by the teachings of St. Francis, she founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monastic religious order for women in ...
The basilica vicinity in Assisi, just below the Assisi Cathedral. The Basilica of Saint Clare (Basilica di Santa Chiara in Italian) is a church in Assisi, central Italy. It is dedicated to and contains the remains of Clare of Assisi, a follower of Francis of Assisi and founder of the Order of Poor Ladies, known today as the Order of Saint Clare.
Saint Clare receives the Formula Vitae ("little rule") from Francis of Assisi. 18th-century azulejo panel in the Convent of Louriçal, Portugal. The Poor Clares were founded by Clare of Assisi in 1212. Little is known of Clare's early life, although popular tradition suggests that she came from a fairly well-to-do family in Assisi.
Agnes of Assisi (1197 or 1198 – 16 November 1253) was one of the first abbesses of the Order of Poor Ladies (now the Poor Clares). She also planted additional communities of the order. She was a younger sister of Clare of Assisi, who is credited with founding the order. Pope Benedict XIV canonized Agnes as a saint in 1753.
The life of Saint Clare (1910). [1] Ascribed to Friar Thomas of Celano. Translated and edited from the earliest mss. by Fr. Paschal Robinson (1870–1948). With an appendix containing the rule of Saint Clare. A biography of Clare of Assisi. Hagiography Circle; Biographical sketch (at the official site of the comune of Celano)
Clare of Assisi (1194 – 1253), founder of the Poor Clares and companion of St. Francis of Assisi; Clare of Montefalco (c. 1268 – 1308), also known as Saint Clare of the Cross; Claire de Remiremont, or Clarisse or Saint Cécile or Sigeberge, abbess of the Abbey of Remiremont in the Vosges; Claire Argolanti, died 1346; Claire Gambacorti
Colette was born in Corbie, a town in the Picardy region of France in January 1381 to an elderly couple. [1] She lost her parents in 1399 and, after a brief stint in a beguinage, in 1402 she received the religious habit of the Third Order of St. Francis and became a hermit, living in a hut near the parish church, under the spiritual direction of the abbot of the local Benedictine abbey.