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A mission group to Haiti that includes churches in Sterling Heights, Southfield and more is sounding the alarm on the plight ...

In 1212, he helped establish a second order for women, called the Poor Ladies of San Damiano, later known as the Poor Clares, led by St Clare of Assisi. In 1224, while on retreat at Mount La Verna ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was anointed as the Pope, he chose to rename himself as Francis after St. Francis of Assisi ... dedicated to St. Clare, who embraced radical poverty to imitate ...

And St. Clare — dedicated to Clare of Assisi — was one of them. The mission church was originally housed within a rented home on Giffords Lane between Katan and Dewey avenues, according to ...

The bishop of Assisi, author of a book on the links between Carlo, Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi - one of the first followers of Francis - said he hoped the canonisation would attract a “new ...

Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, who will be canonized on April 27. ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town ...

ASTON — About seven years ago, Francis and Clare, a pair of budgie parakeets, were gifted to the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for their retirement home, Assisi House in Aston ...