#St Clare

[cuties-in-codices]

st. clare of assisi with sisters of her order

miniatures from a vita of st. clare of assisi ("klarenbuch"), illuminated by clarissine nun sibylla von bondorf, strasbourg, c. 1490-92

source: Karlsruhe, BLB, Cod. Thennenbach 4, fol. 43r and 66r

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Clare of Assisi

1194-1253

Feast Day: August 11 (New), August 12 (Trad)

Patronage: eye disease, goldsmiths, laundry, embroiderers, gilders

Saint Clare of Assisi, an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi, founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition, and wrote their Rule of Life—the first monastic rule 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. In art, Clare is often shown carrying a monstrance or pyx, in commemoration of the time when she warded away the soldiers of Frederick II at the gates of her convent by displaying the Blessed Sacrament and kneeling in prayer.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[lubentina]

Josefa de Óbidos (Portugese, c.1630-1684)

St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi in adoration of the Infant Christ, 1647, probably after Gerard Seghers

[angeltreasure]

[catholic-saint-tournament]

Hi, sending in a vote for St. Clare of Assisi! She's my patron saint and also the patron saint of television!

ANOTHER VOTE FOR ST CLARE!!!

SHE IS AWESOME!

[ukdamo]

St Clare (excerpt)

Louise Erdrich

Before

I kept my silver rings in a box of porphyrite. I ate salt on bread. I could sew. I could mend the petals of a rose. My nipples were pink, my sister’s brown. In the fall we filled our wide skirts with walnuts for our mother to crack with a wooden hammer. She put whorled meats into our mouths, closed our lips with her finger and said to Hush. So we slept and woke to find our bodies arching into bloom. It happened to me first, the stain on the linen, the ceremonial seal which was Eve’s fault. In the church at Assisi I prayed. I listened to brother Francis and I took his vow. The embroidered decorations at my bodice turned real, turned to butterflies and were dispersed. The girdle of green silk, the gift from my father slithered from me like a vine, so I was something else that grew from air, and I was light, the skeins of hair that my mother had divided with a comb of ivory were cut from my head and parcelled out to nesting birds.

[geese-in-a-frock-coat]

I'm working on something about the inadvertent queerness of Enid Blyton's works. So if you have absolutely anything to say on this matter, up to and including:

the transess of George Kirrin

Bill unorthodox gender presentation

Bill and Clarissa

The lesbian undertones in both Malory towers and St Clares

Adaptations adding/ removing queerness

anything else

Please, please, please talk to me about this in any way shape or form. I would love to hear anything you have to say.

[spiderversegf]

one of my friends called me a sillyhead in a birthday card like 3 years ago and for some reason that is a descriptor that speaks to me so deeply. it resonates to me at my core. i want it on my tombstone

[tis-i-german-potato]

Are audio/radio dramas for children not a common thing in other countries??????

I spent 90% of my childhood listening to audio dramas of Die fünf Freunde(Famous five), Hanni & Nanni (St. Clare's), TKKG and many more while playing with Legos or drawing or whatever.

What did all of you do if radio dramas aren't as widespread???? Sit in silence?????

A N D apparently you're allowed to just....make stories up for radio dramas???

Hanni & Nanni originally only consists of 6 books by Enid Blyton and 2 by Pamela Cox.

Do you know how many audio dramas there are in Germany????

76 episodes.

There are 22 Famous five books.

There are 157 audio dramas.

Are you telling me the rest of the world did not grow up listening to these adventures???? Y'all were robbed.

[marietheran]

I used to love the Malory Towers and St. Clare's series as a kid and I still think of them with fondness, but I've come to realise I was (and am) exactly the sort of person who would be set up as a negative example by Blyton, derided and possibly "fixed" by the end of the book.

I mean:

hates sports - check ✓

would be homesick and cry - check ✓

would likely be annoyed at being sent to boarding school - check (though I do think I'd have been wiser than to try and make myself as unhappy as possible)

likes to dress fancy - check ✓

never follows rules and doesn't like to be ordered about by people the social hierarchy puts above her (teachers) - check ✓

asocial (autism) - check ✓

Maybe I'd be lucky and they'd chalk it up to my being a foreigner? Or, for that matter, a war refugee because that's what a Polish girl in late 1940s England would be? (What would I be doing in such an upper class school in that case? Early on, I'd have likely managed a scholarship but my grades dropped considerably around 16...)

Anyway, no point to this, only that those books, for all the fun they provided child-me with, do have considerable faults.

[portraitsofsaints]

Happy Feast Day Saint Clare of Assisi 1194-1253 Feast Day: August 11 (New), August 12 (Trad) Patronage: eye disease, goldsmiths, laundry, embroiderers, gilders

Saint Clare of Assisi, an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi, founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition, and wrote their Rule of Life—the first monastic rule 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. In art, Clare is often shown carrying a monstrance or pyx, in commemoration of the time when she warded away the soldiers of Frederick II at the gates of her convent by displaying the Blessed Sacrament and kneeling in prayer.

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[thebookstan]

Às vezes o mundo nos empurra em uma direção que achamos errada, porque não é de nossa escolha. Isso não significa que está nos levando para o destino errado, apenas que aquele caminho não é o que previmos.

— Corte de Mel e Cinzas

[emvidal]

‘Her father is said to have been Favorino Scifi, Count of Sasso-Rosso, though whether he came of that noble branch of the Scifi family is not certain. Concerning Clare's childhood we have no reliable information. She was eighteen years old when St. Francis, preaching the Lenten sermons at the church of St. George in Assisi, influenced her to change the whole course of her life.’

[myremnantarmy]

𝑺𝒕. 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒊 𝑷𝒓𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑼𝒔.

[armisdeleon]

TO: @poisonedreunions (Daphne St. Clare)

Okay, I know, it sounds crazy... but like, what if you design me a totally bad ass dress... totally cool with it being bridal, but like -- make it bad ass? And then let me doing the craziest photo shoot in it? OR -- what if I model for a dress of two? I mean, I know I don't look like the tradition bride, but -- I love your stuff. And any reason to wear it is a good one in my book! Since, you know, it's going to be like 40 years before I even attempt down the aisle again.