The Christian misfits did not lead comfortable lives. For this reason, among others, they tended to make others uncomfortable ...

Clare of Assisi (1193-1253) may be unique among the saints of the ... spirituality that celebrates the beauty and goodness of nature, the Lord’s creatures. Francis wrote his greatest expression of his ...

Clare broke free of this by running away from home the night after Palm Sunday in 1212 when she was about nineteen years old. She and a friend walked to the Portiuncula Church where they were met by ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in ...

The experience frustrated him. It took Sarr several hours to investigate the claim, and he felt that Francis had accused researchers of fraud without doing enough digging of her own. In an e-mail ...

St Francis wandered around again in the hills behind Assisi. By and by ... the Poor Clares for women after a young noblewoman named Clare sought to join him as a nun, and an order for the laity ...