Clare, Saint

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Clare or Clara, Saint, 1193?–1253, Italian nun of Assisi, devoted from her youth to St. Francis Francis, Saint, or Saint Francis of Assisi (əsē`zē)
..... Click the link for more information. , to whom she took a vow of poverty. She led a life of great austerity. She organized her companions into the Franciscan nuns, or Poor Clares, and struggled a long time for the preservation of the primitive poverty of her order. Feast: Aug. 11.

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