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Category:Saint Clare of Assisi
From The Work of God's Children
(born in 1193, died in 1253, Memorial on August 11)[1]
- Clare was born on July 16, 1194[2] in Assisi to Count Favorino Scifi of Sasso-Rosso and Blessed Ortolana[3] (from the Fiumi family). When she was eighteen years old, Saint Francis of Assisi came to preach at Saint Giorgio's in Assisi, and on March 20, 1212 (Palm Sunday night), she and her cousin Pacifica (accompanied by Clare's aunt Bianca went to the the Porziuncula[4], where Clare made her vows. Clare was originally placed with the Benedictine nuns of San Paolo (near Bastia), but on account of her father, who was against Clare's choice, she was moved to Sant Angelo' in Panzo, another Benedictine convent. She was joined by her younger sister St. Agnes of Assisi sixteen days later, and after the arrival of more women to the Franciscan way of life, they were allocated a dwelling at San Damiano. In 1234, soldiers from the army of Fredrick II were scaling the walls of San Damiano. Saint Clare went to the chapel and brought out a ciborium, and the soldiers fled. She died in Assisi on August 11, 1253,[5] and was canonized on September 26, 1255 by Pope Alexander IV.[6]
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