St Clare of Assisi [ Ссылка ] was born in Assisi on 16 July 1194. Traditional accounts [ Ссылка ] say that Clare's father was a [ Ссылка ] wealthy man of an ancient [ Ссылка ] Roman family. [ Ссылка ] As a child, St Clare was devoted to prayer. However, as a teen she heard Francis preach during a Lenten service in the church of San Giorgio at Assisi and asked him to help her to live after the manner of the Gospel. Deeply influenced by St Francis of Assisi, St Clare refused to marry, as her parents wished. She was one of the first followers of St Francis Assisi. On the evening of Palm Sunday, 20 March 1212, she left her father's house and accompanied by her aunt Bianca and another companion proceeded to the chapel of the Porziuncula to meet Francis. Francis sent St Clare to the Benedictine Convent of St Paul to be instructed in religious life. Her father and uncle attempted to force her to return home. She clung to the altar of the church and threw aside her veil to show her cropped hair. She resisted each attempt, professing that she would have no other husband but Jesus Christ. St Clare was soon joined by her sister Catarina, who took the name Agnes. They remained with the Benedictines until a small dwelling was built for them next to the church of San Damiano, which Francis had repaired some years earlier. She founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition, and wrote their Rule of Life. This was the first set of monastic guidelines known to have been written by a woman. Other women joined them, and they were known as the "Poor Ladies of San Damiano". They lived a simple life of poverty, austerity and seclusion from the world, according to a Rule which Francis gave them as a Second Order. Saint Clare's sisters lived in enclosure, since an itinerant life was hardly possible at the time for women. For a short period, the order was directed by Francis himself. Then in 1216, St Clare accepted the role of abbess of San Damiano. Clare's Franciscan theology of joyous poverty in imitation of Christ is evident in the rule she wrote.
St Clare never left the convent for 40 remaining years. She was a leader and a loving mother to all her sisters. On 9 August 1253, Pope Innocent IV declared St Clare's rule would serve as the governing rule for St Clare's Order of Poor Ladies. Following her death, the Order she founded was renamed in her honour as the Order of St Clare, commonly referred to today as the Poor Clares.
St Clare defended the Monastery with the power of the Holy Eucharist. St Clare and her sisters wore no shoes, ate no meat, lived in a poor house, and kept silent most of the time. Their lives consisted of manual labour and prayer. Yet, they were very happy, because Our Lord was close to them all the time. St Clare became sick and suffered great pains for many years, but she expressed that no pain could trouble her. She died on 11 August 1253 in Assisi. St Clare was canonized on 26 September 1255 by Pope Alexander IV and her feast day was immediately inserted in the General Roman Calendar for celebration on 11 August. Construction of the Basilica of St Clare began a year after her canonization, and her remains were transferred there on 3 October 1260 from the church of St George, also in Assisi.
The Order of Poor Ladies was officially changed to the Order of St Clare in 1263 by Pope Urban IV. St Clare was designated as the patron saint of television in 1958 by Pope Pius XII, because when St Clare was very ill, she could not attend Mass and was reportedly able to see and hear it on the wall in her room.
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