Santa Clara is a city in the county of the same name. The city's population was 127,647 at the 2020 census, making it the eighth-most populous city in the Bay Area. Located in the southern Bay Area, the city was founded by the Spanish in 1777 with the establishment of Mission Santa Clara de Asís under the leadership of Junípero Serra.
Image: Santa Clara, CA USA Santa Clara University, Mission Santa Clara de Asis panoramio (2) (cropped)
Image: USA Santa Clara Women's Club Adobe
Image: USA Santa Clara Carmelite Convent 1 (cropped)
Image: Santa Clara, CA USA Santa Clara University, Mission Santa Clara de Asis panoramio (20) (cropped)
Chiara Offreduccio, known as Clare of Assisi, was an Italian saint who was one of the first followers of Francis of Assisi.
Detail depicting Saint Clare from a fresco (c. 1320) by Simone Martini in the Lower basilica of San Francesco, Assisi
Fresco of Saint Clare and sisters of her order, church of San Damiano, Assisi
Saint Clare intervenes to save a child from a wolf; panel by Giovanni di Paolo, 1455.
Saint Clare makes vows into the hands of Saint Francis. Stained glass window in the convent of the Holy family in Manitowoc, Wisconsin