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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 ...
ASSISI, Italy — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo ...
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the Catholic Church’s newest saint. ASSISI, Italy — Pilgrims have been pouring ...
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 ...