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The Basilica of Saint Clare (Basilica di Santa Chiara in Italian) is a church in Assisi, central Italy. It is dedicated to and contains the remains of Clare of Assisi , a follower of Francis of Assisi and founder of the Order of Poor Ladies , known today as the Order of Saint Clare .
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 ...
St. Clare's Church, St. Clare Church, Saint Clare's Church, Church of St Clare or other variations on the name, may refer to: Cuba. Catedral de Santa Clara de ...
St. Brigid's East Danforth 1920 Gothic Revival: St. Casimir's Roncesvalles: 1949 Gothic Revival: Polish St. Catherine of Siena East Danforth 1965 Modernist St. Cecilia's The Junction: 1909 Gothic Revival: Also home to Vietnamese Martyrs Parish St. Charles Borromeo Lawrence Heights: 1948 St. Clare's Oakwood: 1913 Baroque Revival St. Clement's ...
While there are no saints named St. Claire in English, there are several saints named St. Clare. They are spelled "Ste. Claire" in French. Clare of Assisi (1194 – 1253), founder of the Poor Clares and companion of St. Francis of Assisi; Clare of Montefalco (c. 1268 – 1308), also known as Saint Clare of the Cross
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.
Clare is one of five characters in the oratorio Laudato si', composed in 2016 by Peter Reulein on a libretto by Helmut Schlegel, the others being an angel, Mary, Francis of Assisi, and Pope Francis. [26] Clare of Assisi is remembered in the Church of England and other churches of the Anglican Communion with a Lesser Festival on 11 August. [27] [28]
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.