Also known as:
St. Clare of Montefalco;
French: Claire de Montefalco
CLARE OF MONTEFALCO, Saint. - Augustinian, b. at Montefalco (province of Perugia) in 1268, d. there on 17 Aug. 1308. At the age of 6 she entered the reclusory founded and governed by her elder sister Giovanna under the rule of St. Augustine, received from the bishop of Spoleto in 1290. After Giovanna's death in 1291, C. succeeded her as abbess. Endowed with supernatural charisms, she wisely governed the community, which she also preserved from the contagion of a quietist sect, called that of the Spirit of Liberty, whose leaders were discovered and denounced by the saint. After her death the emblems of the Passion were found in her heart; her body is still preserved incorrupt. After the diocesan process had been held, John XXII in 1317 ordered the apostolic process for her canonization. But only in 1742 did the beatification follow, and on 8 Dec. 1881 the canonization. The Roman Martyrology commemorates her on 17 Aug.
Bibliography7 worksVita contemporanea di Berengario di s. Africano, edited by M. Falcoi Pulignani in Arch. storico per le Marche e l'Umbria, 1 (1884), pp. 557-
BIBL.:Vita contemporanea di Berengario di s. Africano, edited by M. Falcoi Pulignani in Arch. storico per le Marche e l'Umbria, 1 (1884), pp. 557-625; 2 (1885), pp. 193-266; by P. F. Toth, Storia di s. C. da M., Siena 1908 (with Italian version); and in Analecta augustiniensis, 17 (1939-40), in seven instalments: Antonio da Montefalco in the 15th century reduced it into dialogue form in the vernacular: Vita di s. C. da M., Perugia 1882. Cf. also B. Piergili, Vita della b. C. da M., Foligno 1642; A. N. Merlin, S. te Claire de la Croix de Montefalco, Paris 1930; L. Oliger, De secta Spiritus libertatis, Rome 1943, pp. 9-27, 91-126 and passim; G. Abate, La casa paterna di s. C., Assisi 1946.
Oliger, Livario. “Chiara da Montefalco, santa.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1421. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/chiara-da-montefalco-santa.
MLA
Oliger, Livario. “Chiara da Montefalco, santa.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1421. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/chiara-da-montefalco-santa.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_chiara_da_montefalco_santa,
author = {Oliger, Livario},
title = {Chiara da Montefalco, santa},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1421},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/chiara-da-montefalco-santa}
}
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