Saint Clare of Assisi
Simone Martini, detail depicting Saint Clare from a fresco (1312–20) in the Lower basilica of San Francesco, Assisi
Confessor
Born	July 16, 1194(1194-07-16), Assisi, Italy
Died	August 11, 1253 (aged 59), Assisi, Italy
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheran Church
Canonized	September 26, 1255 by Pope Alexander IV
Major shrine	Basilica of St. Clare, Assisi Santa Chiara (Naples)
Feast	August 11 (alternates: August 12, September 23, October 3)
Attributes	monstrance, pyx, lamp, habit of the Poor Clares
Patronage	clairvoyance, eyes, eye disease, goldsmith, laundry, embrodiers, gilders, gold, good weather, needleworkers, Santa Clara Pueblo, telephones, telegraphs, television
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Saint Clare of Assisi, born Chiara Offreduccio (July 16, 1194 – August 11, 1253) was an Italian saint, one of the first followers of Francis of Assisi and founded the Order of Poor Ladies to organize the women who chose to embrace monastic life in the Franciscan vision. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 492 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (2024 × 2464 pixel, file size: 566 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Petrachs Virgil (title page) (c. ... For other uses, see Fresco (disambiguation). ... The Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi (St Francis), the mother church of the Franciscan Order, is a World Heritage Site in Assisi, Italy. ... This article is about the Italian town. ... is the 197th day of the year (198th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 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Saint Clare of Assisi, born Chiara Offreduccio, (July 16, 1194 – August 11, 1253) was one of the first followers of Francis of Assisi and founded the Order of Poor Ladies to organize the women who chose to embrace monastic life in the Franciscan vision. ... The facade of Santa Chiara. ... is the 197th day of the year (198th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events November 20 - Palermo falls to Henry VI, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire December 25 - Henry VI is crowned king of Sicily. ... is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For broader historical context, see 1250s and 13th century. ... Saint Francis of Assisi, St. ... The Order of Poor Ladies, also known as the Poor Clares, the Poor Clare Nuns, the Clarisse, the Minoresses, or the Second Order of St. ... Monasticism (from Greek: monachos — a solitary person) is the religious practice in which one renounces worldly pursuits in order to fully devote ones life to spiritual work. ... The Order of Friars Minor and other Franciscan movements are disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi. ...

Biography

Clare of Assisi was born in Assisi, Umbria, as the eldest daughter of Favorino Scifi, Count of Sasso-Rosso and his wife Ortolana. The Lower and Upper Church from the lower piazza Assisi (Latin: Asisium) is a town and episcopal see on the western flank of Mt. ... Umbria is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany to the west, the Marche to the east and Lazio to the south. ...

Ortolana was a very devout woman who had undertaken pilgrimages to Rome, Santiago de Compostela and the Holy Land. Later on in her life, Ortolana entered Chiara's monastery.^[1] For other uses, see Rome (disambiguation). ... Location Location of Santiago de Compostela Coordinates : , Time Zone : (GMT+01) Western Europe / Paris Standard Time - summer: (GMT+02) Western Europe / Paris Daylight Saving Time General information Native name Santiago de Compostela (Galician) Spanish name Santiago de Compostela Postal code 15700 Website http://www. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Holy Land (Biblical). ...

In 1210, Clare heard Francis preaching in the streets of Assisi about his new mendicant order (then newly-approved by Pope Innocent III) and was moved by his words. Pope Innocent III (c. ...

On March 20, 1212, Clare's parents had decided she would marry a wealthy young man. In desperation Clare left her home and sought refuge in St. Francis, who received her into religious life. is the 79th day of the year (80th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events The first Great Fire of London burns most of the city to the ground Battle of Navas de Tolosa Childrens crusade Crusaders push the Muslims out of northern Spain In Japan, Kamo no Chōmei writes the Hōjōki, one of the great works of classical Japanese...

She lived at the Church of San Damiano where she founded an order of nuns. She had their hair cut short and put on rough tunics to indicate her acceptance of the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and stayed first with a nearby monastery of Benedictine nuns, San Paolo delle Abadesse and then into the community of Sant'Angelo in Panza on Monte Subasio. For the college, see Benedictine College. ... For other uses, see Nun (disambiguation). ... Monte Subasio and Assisi. ...

Her sister Agnes of Assisi also left her parents and followed her to Sant'Angelo. ^[2] Later, Clare and Agnes moved to San Damiano, where they founded the Order of Poor Ladies (also then known as the Order of San Damiano). St. ... San Damiano is a church with a monastery near Assisi, Italy. ...

Unlike the Franciscan order, whose members moved around the country to preach, Saint Clare's sisters lived in enclosure, since an itinerant life was hardly conceivable at the time for women. Their life consisted of manual labour ^[3] and prayer. For other uses, see Enclosure (disambiguation). ...

After a time when the order was directed by Francis himself ^[4], in 1216, Clare accepted the role of abbess at San Damiano. This gave her order greater autonomy than the title of a prioress, who had to follow the orders of a priest heading the community. ^[5] An Abbess (Latin abbatissa, fem. ... A priory is an ecclesistical circonscription run by a prior. ...

As abbess, she defended her order from the attempts of prelates to impose a rule on them that more closely resembled the Rule of St Benedict than Francis' stricter vows. Clare also played a significant role in encouraging and aiding Francis, whom she saw as a spiritual father figure: she took care of him during his illnesses at the end of his life, until his death in 1226. St. ...

After Francis's death, Clare continued to promote the growth of her order, writing letters to abbesses in other parts of Europe and thwarting every attempt by each successive Pope to impose a Rule on her order which watered down the radical commitment to corporate poverty she had originally embraced. She did this despite the fact that she had endured a long period of poor health until her death. Corporate poverty is a practice which arose in the Middle Ages of religious communities which refused to own property, either individually or corporately. ...

She is known for her loyalty to Saint Francis, so much so that she was sometimes titled alter Franciscus, another Francis. ^[6]

On August 9, 1253, the Papal bull Solet annure of Pope Innocent IV confirmed that Clare's Rule would serve as the governing rule for the Order of Poor Ladies. Two days later, on August 11, Clare died at the age of 59. is the 221st day of the year (222nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For broader historical context, see 1250s and 13th century. ... Papal bull of Pope Urban VIII, 1637, sealed with a leaden bulla. ... Pope Innocent IV (Manarola, 1180/90 – Naples, December 7, 1254), born Sinibaldo de Fieschi, Pope from 1243 to 1254, belonged to the feudal nobility of Liguria, the Fieschi, counts of Lavagna. ... is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

On August 15, 1255, Pope Alexander IV canonized Clare as Saint Clare of Assisi. In 1263, Pope Urban IV officially changed the name of the Order of Poor Ladies to the Order of Saint Clare. is the 227th day of the year (228th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events Königsberg was founded Births Emperor Albert I of Germany, in July Deaths Monarchs/Presidents Aragon - James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276) Categories: 1255 ... Alexander IV, né Rinaldo Conti (Anagni, ca. ... Urban IV, born Jacques Pantaléon (Troyes, ca. ...

Basilica of St. Clare, Assisi.

On February 17, 1958, Pope Pius XII designated her as the patron saint of television, on the basis that, when she was too ill to attend a Mass, she had been miraculously able to see and hear it on the wall of her room. The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) was founded by Mother Angelica, a Poor Clare. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 651 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (704 × 648 pixel, file size: 223 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 651 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (704 × 648 pixel, file size: 223 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pope Pius XII (Latin: ), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City, from March 2, 1939 until his death. ... Saint Quentin is the patron saint of locksmiths and is also invoked against coughs and sneezes. ... A miracle, derived from the old Latin word miraculum meaning something wonderful, is a striking interposition of divine intervention by God in the universe by which the ordinary course and operation of Nature is overruled, suspended, or modified. ... The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) is a U.S.-based broadcasting network that carries Catholic-themed programming, including a Daily Mass from its Irondale Monastery/Studios, talk shows such as EWTN Live and Sunday Night Live, Daily Rosary, Benediction, doctrinal instruction programs, entertainment/variety shows, childrens programming, live...

In art, she is shown carrying a monstrance or pyx, in commemoration of the time when she warded away attackers at the gates of her convent by raising the Blessed Sacrament over the wall. A solar monstrance Monstrance is the vessel used in the Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, and Anglican Churches to display the consecrated Eucharistic Host, during Eucharistic adoration or Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. ... A brass pyx for carrying the consecrated host A pyx or pix (Latin: pyxis, transliteration of Greek: pyxis, box-wood receptacle, from pyxos, box-tree) is a small container used in the Catholic Church and Anglican Churches to carry the consecrated host, the Eucharist, to the sick or invalid or... The Blessed Sacrament is displayed in a procession at the 2005 Southeastern Eucharistic Congress. ...

Lake Saint Clair and the Saint Clair River in the Great Lakes region of North America were named on her feast day August 12, 1679. Since 1970, her feast day has been the date of her death August 11 in the revised liturgical calendar. Although her body is no longer incorrupt, her skeleton was found to be in a perfect state of preservation and is displayed in Assisi. =] Public beach on Lake St. ... The St. ... is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 24 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament August 7 - The brigantine Le Griffon, which was commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes. ... is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The liturgical year, also known as the Christian year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in some Christian churches which determines when Feasts, Memorials, Commemorations, and Solemnities are to be observed and which portions of Scripture are to be read. ... St. ...

References

External links

• Bartoli, Marco. Chiara d'Assisi. Rome 1989: Instituto Storico dei Cappucini.
• St. Clare of Assisi in Catholic Encyclopedia
• The pear-tree of St. Clare in the Convent of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in Bautzen
• St. Clare of Assisi
• Musical Theatre about St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi
• Saint Clare of Assisi in Patron Saints Index

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See also

• Three Fertility Saints of Obando, Bulacan, Philippines