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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 ...
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 ).
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.
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.
The image was originally painted by Carlo Maratta, who gave it to a young noblewoman, Chiara Isabella Fornari, who later became Abbess of the Convent of the Poor Clares in Todi, Italy. [1] The image, was venerated in Todi under the Marian title "Refugium peccatorum", (English: “Refuge of Sinners”).
On Palm Sunday 1211 St Francis received in this church Clare of Assisi and founded the Second Order of the Poor Ladies Poor Clares. Adjoining this humble sanctuary, already dear to Francis, the first Franciscan convent was formed by the erection of a few small huts or cells of wattle, straw, and mud, and enclosed by a hedge. [3]
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.
The shrine is first recorded in 17th- and 18th-century inventories of the convent of the Poor Clares nunnery at Buda, in today's Budapest. [5] Queen Clementia of Hungary gifted the reliquary in the 14th century to her sister, Elizabeth of Poland, Queen of Hungary , who founded the convent. [ 7 ]