Saint Clare Of Assisi: Her Life And Legislation

Saint Clare Of Assisi: Her Life And Legislation

Author: Gilliat-Smith, Ernest

Year: 1914

CONTENTS PART I The Life of Saint Clare CHAPTER I Of Saint Clare's kinsfolk : the testimony of contemporary witnesses — Celano, the author of the Legenda Sanctae Clarae, Alexander IV, in the bull of canonization and in the primitive office, Cardinal Ugolino. What later mediaeval writers say — the author of the Chronicle of the Twenty-four Generals, Marianus of Florence, Pietro Rodolfi of Tossignano. Concerning the fables of Wedding and of his disciples ancient and modern . pp. i-io CHAPTER II Of certain noteworthy dates according to contemporary evidence : Saint Clare died on the nth of August, 1253. She began to reside at Saint Damian's in the summer of 121 1. She renounced the world earlier in the same year— on the night of Palm Sunday. She was in all probability born in 1193 pp. 11-13 CHAPTER III Concerning the moral complexion of Christendom at the opening of the twelve hundreds. Of the cocjgfe in God's field and of the wheat; of the good work of philanthropic associations the Hospitalers of Saint Anthony, the Crutched Friars, the Noble Order of Fontevrault, Saint Norbert's White Canons, Beguines and Beghards, the Umiliati. Of the flourishing condition of the contemplative orde