Poor Clares

Jesus.

Poor Claire.

Yeah.

Diva can sing.

in this particular miracle, did in fact convert that sorceress.

When she was at the age of 15, she then desired to enter the convent of the Poor Clares.

And we would think that the Poor Clares would readily accept a young girl who was converting many by her preaching and also by miracles, but instead they didn't accept her for the reason given that I read is that because she didn't have a dowry and In any case, so St.

Rose determined to just gather together some of her companions and live their own type of religious life.

But this effort, too, was shut down by the ecclesiastical authorities.

At a very young age, he joined the Order of Friars Minor Conventual in the friary at Olone, where he remained, serving also as superior until 1788.

He was then assigned as chaplain and confessor of the Poor Clares, first at St. Elizabeth in Nantes, then at Mormorville, and finally at the monastery in Buron near Gontierre in the Diocese of Laval.

Here it was he fell victim to the French Revolution.

He refused to take the oath prescribed by the civil constitution of the clergy.

Despite what her father wanted, she wanted to devote herself to the church.

She would go on to found religious institutions in Prague, join the Poor Clares, and subsequently becoming a saint, another glittering holy jewel in the Přemyslid line, joining her saintly predecessors Ljudmila and Wenceslas.

It's quite something when the most decisive person in a diplomatic crisis is the teenage girl everyone is trying to marry off.

Ottokar had to content himself with this decision, and he put his efforts into ensuring that his other plans for family security went forward.

I gave them a tour of Cleveland Catholicism.

So we went to the cathedral, we went to the art museum and looked at paintings, we went to the West Side Catholic Center, and we ended at the Poor Clare Shrine, where there's cloistered nuns in honor of St. Clare of Assisi.

Now on this group there was this one girl, she was a foreign exchange student from Russia, and she was a bit cynical about things of faith, but she never left the group.

We had about 30 or 40 young adults that'd come every week.

So I'm kind of observing her throughout the day and she stayed very kind of, hmm, that's nice.

I said, okay.

We get to the Poor Clare Shrine.

Now in the Poor Clare Shrine, they're cloistered nuns, so they're not allowed to come out, but they come visit you behind a grate.

Waldo is our beagle.

We're heading out west on a family road trip the next day and leaving Waldo in the care of the poor Clare Nuns, a cloistered convent north of Boston.

We place him on a large wooden turntable and ring a bell.

From behind a grill, the swishing of habits, flashes of black and white, whispers.

My father sided with these old school nuns to such a degree that even our dog got caught up in the controversy.

So when we went on holiday, He was entrusted to the most conservative order that my father could find, shut away from the unclean world.

So August 1979, back at the Poor Clares.

We're here to retrieve Waldo from the nuns.

Um, there was an example, again, going back to the Reformation, that's a big, you know, reference point for me.

And, uh, there was a, a convent of Poor Clare nuns in Nuremberg, Germany.

And, uh, when the Reformation came, the, the city council of Nuremberg voted to accept the Reformation and therefore demanded all the convents and monasteries and everything close.

Well, one abbess refused, and, uh, her brother was on the city council.

Um, and just to, to be there and to experience it, um, so yes, it was just... to, and, and again, for me to be able to tell my oldest daughter, you know, who's now a teenager, "Hey, your, your middle name comes from this town.

This is, you know, this is our town." Uh, and, and understand the, the story of Saint Clare of Assisi, of the Poor Clares, of course, and just her, um, just her ministry.

Just it's, uh, really powerful.

Trying to, trying to keep that connection.