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|birth_date={{birth date|1194|7|16|df=y}}
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|feast_day= 11 August
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|image = Simone Martini 047.jpg
|caption = Detail depicting Saint Clare from a [[fresco]] ({{circa|1320}}) by [[Simone Martini]] in the [[Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi|Lower basilica of San Francesco]], Assisi
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|canonized_by=[[Pope Alexander IV]]
|attributes=[[Monstrance]], [[pyx]], [[oil lamp|lamp]], [[crozier]], [[Religious habit|habit of the Poor Clares]]
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|major_shrine=[[Basilica of Saint Clare]], Assisi
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'''Chiara Offreduccio''' (16 July 1194 – 11 August 1253), known as '''Clare of Assisi''' (sometimes spelled ''Clara'', ''Clair'' or ''Claire''; {{
Inspired by the teachings of St. Francis, she founded the [[Poor Clares|Order of Poor Ladies]], a [[Monasticism|monastic]] [[religious order]] for women in the [[Franciscan]] tradition. The Order of Poor Ladies was different from any other order or convent because it followed a rule of strict poverty.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Grau |first=Engelbert |date=1992 |title=Saint Clare's privilegium Paupertatis Its History and Significance |journal=Greyfriars Review |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=327}}</ref> Clare wrote their Rule of Life, the first set of monastic guidelines known to have been written by a woman. Following her death, the order she founded was renamed in her honor as the Order of Saint Clare, commonly referred to today as the Poor Clares. Her feast day is on 11 August.
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==Early life==
[[File:SDamiano-Clara og søstre.jpg|thumb|left|Fresco of Saint Clare and sisters of her order, church of [[San Damiano, Assisi]]]]
Clare was born in [[Assisi]] to the Offreduccio household during the [[Italy in the Middle Ages#High Middle Ages (11th–13th centuries)|High Middle Ages]], the eldest daughter of Favarone<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Natali |first1=Costanzo |last2=Donno |first2=Cristina |title=Santa Chiara d'Assisi: La sua vita |url=http://www.fraticappuccini.it/santachiara/vita.htm |access-date=26 November 2018 |publisher=Conferenza Italiana Ministri Provinciali Cappuccini |language=it}}</ref> or Favorino Sciffi, Count of Sasso-Rosso, and his wife [[Ortolana]]. Traditional accounts say that Clare's father was a wealthy representative of an ancient Roman family, who owned a large palace in Assisi and a castle on the slope of [[Mount Subasio]].<ref name="Robinson">Robinson, Paschal (1908). [[wikisource:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/St. Clare of Assisi|"St. Clare of Assisi."]] ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. '''4.''' New York: Robert Appleton Company.</ref> Ortolana belonged to the noble family of Fiumi, and was a very devout woman who had undertaken pilgrimages to Rome, [[Santiago de Compostela]], and the [[Holy Land]]. Later in life, after being widowed, Ortolana entered Clare's monastery
Clare's younger sisters, Beatrix and Catarina, followed her into religious life. ( As children, Clare and her sisters were taught the ways of Christianity by their mother; they all became very religious and devoted to prayer. When Clare was 12 years old, her parents wanted her to marry a wealthy young man; however, she protested and said that she did not want to marry until she turned 18. As a teen, she heard Francis preach during a Lenten service in the church of San Giorgio at Assisi.
Inspired by his words and knowing that marriage was rapidly approaching, Clare went to Francis and asked him to help her to live after the manner of the Gospel.<ref name=":0" /> On the evening of [[Palm Sunday]], 20 March 1212, with the consent of Guido II, bishop of Assisi, Clare left her father's house accompanied by her aunt Bianca and another companion, and proceeded to the chapel of the [[Porziuncula]] to meet Francis. There, her hair was cut, and she exchanged her rich gown for a plain robe and veil.<ref name="Robinson" /> Fully cutting a woman's hair was a symbolic act showing that she was no longer bound by the laws of man or society but rather that she followed the will of God.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Botkin |first=Gene |date=26 April 2023 |title=Do Nuns Shave Their Heads? |url=https://www.theosischristian.com/do-nuns-shave-their-heads/ |access-date=26 April 2023 |website=theosischristian}}</ref>
== Life in the convent ==
[[File:Saint-clare-of-assisi-saving-a-child-from-a-wolf--22241.jpg|thumb|Saint Clare intervenes to save a child from a wolf; panel by [[Giovanni di Paolo]], 1455.]]
[[File:Saint-Clare-Vows- Franciscan-Sisters-Christian-Charity-Convent.jpg|alt=Saint Clare of Assisi Window at Holy Family Convent Manitowoc WI|thumb|Saint Clare makes vows into the hands of Saint Francis. Stained glass window in the convent of the Holy family in Manitowoc, Wisconsin]]
Francis placed Clare in the convent of the [[Benedictine]] [[nuns]] of San Paulo, near Bastia. Her father, along with other members of her family, attempted to convince her to return home. At first, they tried to persuade her by enticing her with wealth, and
Finally, when they tried to use force she clung to the altar of the church and threw aside her veil to show her cropped hair.<ref name="Foley">Foley, Leonard, (revised by McCloskey, Pat). [https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-clare-of-assisi/ "Saint Clare of Assisi"], ''Saint of the Day'', Franciscan Media.</ref> It was only after seeing her cropped hair that her family relented and left her in peace.<ref name=":1" /> In order to provide the greater solitude Clare desired, a few days later Francis sent her to Sant' Angelo in Panzo, another monastery of the Benedictine nuns on one of the flanks of Subasio.
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