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  2. Colette of Corbie - Wikipedia

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    Colette of Corbie, PCC (13 January 1381 – 6 March 1447) was a French abbess and the foundress of the Colettine Poor Clares, a reform branch of the Order of Saint Clare, better known as the Poor Clares. She is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church.

  3. Poor Clares - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Portrait of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia (Rubens) - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia (1625) by Rubens. The Portrait of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia is a painting by Rubens of Isabella Clara Eugenia.It is dated to 1625 and shows her in the habit of the Poor Clares, which she assumed on 22 October 1621 after the death of her husband Archduke Albert of Austria.

  5. Colettine Poor Clares - Wikipedia

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    It was the first community of Poor Clares of the Colettine Reform to be re-established in England after the Reformation. Reduced to four nuns, the house closed in January 2011 and the nuns dispersed to other communities of the order. [4] [5] In 1857 Poor Clares from Bruges established a monastery at Notting Hill, London, designed by Henry Clutton.

  6. Clare of Assisi - Wikipedia

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    San Damiano became the centre of Clare's new religious order, which was known in her lifetime as the "Order of Poor Ladies of San Damiano". San Damiano is traditionally considered the first house of this order; it may have been affiliated with an existing network of women's religious houses organised by Hugolino (who later became Pope Gregory IX ).

  7. Royal Monastery of Saint Clare - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Monastery of Saint Clare (Monasterio de Santa Clara la Real) is a monastery of the Poor Clares located in Murcia, Spain. Originating in the 14th century and occupying the site of a 13th century Muslim palace, [ 1 ] it is one of the most historically significant buildings in the city.

  8. Catherine of Bologna - Wikipedia

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    Catherine of Bologna [Caterina de' Vigri] (8 September 1413 – 9 March 1463) [2] [3] was an Italian Poor Clare, writer, teacher, mystic, artist, and saint.The patron saint of artists and against temptations, Catherine de' Vigri was venerated for nearly three centuries in her native Bologna before being formally canonized in 1712 by Pope Clement XI.

  9. Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Perugino) - Wikipedia

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    Over a hilly background with a lake and a fortified city, is the scene of the Lamentation, which occupies the foreground of lower half of the painting. The body of Jesus is at the center, lying over a white shroud and held by one of the Pious Women, by Nicodemus and by Joseph of Arimathea. The latter dons a richly decorated hat with flowers.