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11Aug

Saint Clare of Assisi | Franciscan Media

https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-clare-of-assisi/


Saint Clare referred to herself as a little plant. In many ways, she was a strong oak. The first woman to write a Rule of Life for her sisters, she insisted on the privilege of poverty until her dying breath, getting papal approval of her Rule just days before she died.

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