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Poor Clares: see Clare, Saint Clare or Clara, Saint, 1193?–1253, Italian nun of Assisi, devoted from her youth to St. Francis , to whom she took a vow of poverty. She led a life of great austerity. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| She chose to make the sisters in the play a cloistered monastery of Poor Clares, a branch of Franciscans known for their vows of poverty. The Convent follows a driven career woman, a recovering alcoholic, a free-living atheist and a mother of three as they spend 40 days with the Poor Clares, an enclosed order of nuns. There is no reason to doubt the sincerity or depth of this desire, which she immediately satisfied by going to Cleveland, over the hysterical objections of her mother, and taking vows in a religious order, the Franciscan Sisters of the Most Blessed Sacrament, now called the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration. |
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