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 ...

Beginning with the lives of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Clare of Assisi, this course explores the foundational elements of Franciscan spirituality including the centrality of Christ. This course ...

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 ...