The order will celebrate St. Clare of Assisi who took vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and enclosure more than 800 years ago with a Mass at 9 a.m. Aug. 11, followed by a reception.

Set in 1211 Italy, playwright Chiara Atik tells the story of St Clare of Assisi, founder of the Order of Poor Ladies (later called The Poor Clares), who renounced her family’s wealth and status and ...

The order spread rapidly throughout Italy with young noblewomen selling all their possessions to take on the habit of a Poor Clare. In 1218, the order began to spread outside the Italian border.

Today, the Poor Clares form a worldwide order of more than 17,000 nuns in 900 monasteries, 42 of which are in the United States. Mass is offered daily at 9 a.m. in the Wappingers Falls monastery ...

Recently, we had the chance to speak with Liz Kettle, who plays Peppa, one of Clare’s servants. We discussed how she went ...

She adopted a life of poverty, and established the order of Poor Clare at the San Damiano monastery near Assisi, Italy around 1212 A.D. "St. Clare was a healer," said Sister Jane of her foundress.

The Poor Clares follow the Rule of St. Clare, which was approved by Pope Innocent IV the day before Clare’s death in 1253. The main branch of the Order (O.S.C.) follows the observance of Pope Urban.

In 1878, two nieces of Pope Pius IX ended their "begging tour" of the West in Omaha, where they could set up the first Order of the Poor Clares in ...

Poor Clares’ Rich Life. The Poor Clares, officially the Order of St. Clare (Ordo Sanctae Clarae) were the second Franciscan branch of the order to be established. Founded by Sts.

GREAT FALLS, Montana — Through good times and bad, they have prayed for all of us; a cloistered order of nuns, devout in their vows of poverty and seclusion.

Inside the smooth gray walls, set back beneath the trees, the Poor Clares, a cloistered order, leads lives of silent sacrifice. They rarely speak and move around the home with bare feet.