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Fresco of Saint Clare and nuns of her order, Chapel of San Damiano, Assisi. The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare (Latin: Ordo Sanctae Clarae), originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and also known as the Clarisses or Clarissines, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Second Order of Saint Francis, are members of an enclosed order of nuns in the ...
The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration (PCPA) are a branch of the Poor Clares, a cloistered, contemplative order of nuns in the Franciscan tradition. Founded in France in 1854 by Marie Claire Bouillevaux, the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration are cloistered nuns dedicated to the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
The Abbey of the Minoresses of St. Clare without Aldgate [nb 1] was a monastery of Franciscan women living an enclosed life, established in the late 13th century on a site often said to be of five acres, [1] though it may have been as little as half that, [2] at the spot in the parish of St. Botolph, outside the medieval walls of the City of ...
In the United States, the Capuchin Poor Clares have monasteries in Wilmington, Delaware, Amarillo, Texas, Alamo, Texas, Denver, Colorado, and Pueblo, Colorado. At Our Lady of Light Monastery in Denver there are nine professed sisters. The monastery in Denver was founded by Capuchin Poor Clare sisters from Irapuato in central Mexico in 1988. In ...
The sisters are present in the Americas (Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, United States), Asia (South Korea, Japan, India, Indonesia), Africa (Nigeria, Sierra Leone), and Europe (Ireland, Italy, Russia). The generalate is located in Rome, in the Monte Sacro area. [1] As of the end of 2008, the congregation had 576 religious in 59 houses. [1]
St. Clare's Monastery is a monastery of the Order of St. Clare in Duncan, British Columbia, Canada.The nuns of the order also go by the name "Poor Clares".They are a contemplative community of women who live the charism of Saint Clare of Assisi and form the Second Order in the movement started by Saint Francis of Assisi.
Jan. 13, 1995 — The Rev. Raymond Kownacki, 60, chaplain at the Poor Clare cloistered monastery in Belleville and former pastor of St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Washington Park (died in ...
The Convent of Poor Clares at Gravelines in the Spanish Netherlands, now northern France, was a community of English nuns of the Order of St. Clare, commonly called "Poor Clares", which was founded in 1607 by Mary Ward. [1] The order of Poor Clares was founded in 1212 by Saint Clare of Assisi as the Second Order of the Franciscan movement.