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alms for the poor in the streets of Assisi. Clara readily did this, and Francis, satisfied as to her vocation, told her to come to the Portiuncula arrayed as a See also:

BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)

bride. The friars met her with lighted candles, and at the See also:

FOOT

foot of the See also:

ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar Francis See also:

SHORE

shore off her See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair, received her vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and invested her with the Franciscan See also:

HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit, 1212. He placed her for a couple of years in a See also:

BENEDICTINE

Benedictine See also:

CONVENT (Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)

convent in Assisi, until the convent at St Damian's, See also:

close to the See also:

TOWN

town, was ready. Her two younger sisters, and, after her See also:

FATHER

father's See also:

DEATH

death, her See also:

MOTHER

mother and many others joined her, and the Franciscan nuns spread widely and rapidly (see See also:

CLARES, POOR

CLARES, POOR). The relations of friendship and sympathy between St Clara and St Francis were very close, and there can be no doubt that she was one of the truest heirs of Francis's inmost spirit. After his death Clara threw herself wholly on the See also:

side of those who opposed mitigations in the See also:

RULE

rule and manner of life, and she was one of the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief upholders of St Francis's See also:

PRIMITIVE

primitive See also:

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of poverty (see See also:

FRANCISCANS (otherwise called Friars Minor, or Minorites; also the Seraphic Order ; and in England Grey Friars, from the colour of the habit, which, however, is now brown rather than grey)

FRANCISCANS). She was the close friend of See also:

BROTHER

Brother See also:

Leo and the other " Companions of St Francis," and they assisted at her death. For See also:

FORTY

forty years she was See also:

ABBESS (Lat. abbatissa, fem. form of abbas, abbot)

abbess at St Damian's, and the See also:

GREAT

great endeavour of her life was that the rule of the nuns should be purged of the See also:

FOREIGN

foreign elements that had been introduced, and should become wholly conformable to St Francis's spirit. She lived just See also:

long enough to See also:

witness the fulfilment of her great wish, a rule such as she desired being approved by the See also:

pope two days before her death on the 11th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1253.

The See also:

SOURCES

sources for her life are to be found in the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum on the 11th of August, and sketches in such Lives of the See also:

SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

Saints as See also:

ALBAN, SAINT

Alban See also:

Butler's. See also Wetzer and Welte, Kirchenlexicon (2nd ed.), See also:

art. " Clara." (E. C.

End of Article: CLARA, SAINT (1194-1253)

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