Poor Clares
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The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare, originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and also known as the Clarisses or Clarissines, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order,
Fresco of Saint Clare and nuns of her order, Chapel of San Damiano, Assisi
San Damiano in Assisi
Gothic altar in Cologne Cathedral dedicated to Poor Clare saints
The (former) Poor Clare Monastery in Jamaica Plain, Boston
Catherine of Bologna
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Catherine of Bologna was an Italian Poor Clare, writer, teacher, mystic, artist, and saint. The patron saint of artists and against temptations, she was venerated for nearly three centuries in her nat
Poor Clares
…Kinga (Cunegunda) of Poland (5 March 1224 – 24 July 1292), Grand Duchess of Poland who later became a nun, canonized on 16 June 1999 Caterina de' Vigri da Bologna (8 September 1413 – 9 March 1463), writer, teacher, mystic, and artist, canonized on 22 May 1712 Eustochia Smeralda Calafato (25 March 1434 – 20 January…
Saint Catherine of Bologna with Three Donors by the Master of the Baroncelli Portraits, c. 1470–1480
Guglielmo Giraldi (Italian, active 1445–1489) – Saint Catherine of Bologna
Body of Catherine in the Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna
Madonna of the Apple, by St. Catherine of Bologna