Saint Clare with Monstrance wood carved statue - color

Saint Clare with Monstrance Outdoor Religious Statues Near Me; Saint Clare Virgin

August 11th

Assisi, 1193/1194 - Assisi, 11 August 1253

It has just twelve years Clare, born in 1194 by the noble and wealthy family of Offreducci, when Francis of Assisi makes the gesture of stripping all the clothes to return them to his father Bernardone. Conquered by the example of Francis, the young Clare seven years later ran away from home to join him at the Porziuncola. The saint cuts her hair and makes her wear the Franciscan habit, and then leads her to the Benedictine monastery of St. Paul, in Bastia Umbra, where her father tries in vain to persuade her to return home. It is sheltered then in the Church of Saint Damiano, in which it founds the feminine Order of the """"poor recluses"""" (later called Poor Clares) of which she is appointed abbess and where Francis dictates a first Rule. Clare subsequently wrote the definitive Rule, asking for and obtaining from Gregory IX the """"privilege of poverty"""". For having contemplated, on a Christmas night, on the walls of her cell the crib and the rites of the solemn functions that took place in Santa Maria degli Angeli, she is chosen by Pius XII as the protector of television. Heir of the Franciscan spirit, she took care to spread it, distinguishing herself for the cult of the Holy Sacrament that saved the convent from the Saracens in 1243.
Patronage: Television
Etymology: Chiara = transparent, illustrious, from Latin
Emblem: Lily, Host
Memory of St. Clare, virgin, who, the first seedling of the Poor Ladies of the Order of the Minorites, followed St. Francis, leading a hard life in Assisi in Umbria, but rich in works of charity and piety; distinguished lover of poverty, she never, not even in extreme poverty and infirmity, allowed herself to be separated from it.