Feast Day: August 17
Also
known as
Clare of the Cross
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Claimed by both the Franciscans
and Augustinians.
Pious from childhood. Franciscan
tertiary.
Joining with her blood sisters and some friends, they formed a new
Franciscan house with Clare's sister as its first abbess. Reluctant abbess
of the community at Santa Croce in 1255 following the death of her sister;
the house eventually adapted the Rule of Saint Augustine.
Christ's suffering was the continual subject of her meditation. Upon her
death, a cross was found emblazoned on the flesh above her heart. Body
found to be incorrupt.
Born
c.1268
@ Montefalco, Spoleto, Italy
Died
18
August 1308
@ Montefalco, Spoleto, Italy
Canonized
1881
@ Pope
Leo
XIII
Patronage
Montefalco Italy
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