Thomas of Celano, Life of St. Francis 1:29 Statue of St. Clare on facade of Mission Santa Clara at SCU A garden commemorating St. Clare is especially appropriate at her namesake mission and university ...

This garden is a memorial to St. Clare of Assisi (c. 1193-1253), religious mystic and follower of apostolic poverty, spiritual friend of St. Francis, and the first woman in Western Europe to compose a ...

St Francis grew up as a rich and spoiled young ... the order of the Poor Clares for women after a young noblewoman named Clare sought to join him as a nun, and an order for the laity now called ...