St. Clare of Assisi was the founder of the Poor Clares, a Roman Catholic religious order of contemplative, cloistered nuns. She was also one of the first followers of St. Francis of Assisi. She was born in 1194 in Assisi (Italy) and was canonized in 1255 two years after her death.
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