"May you cling to his most sweet Mother, who gave birth to the kind of Son whom the heavens could not contain, and yet, she carried him in the tiny enclosure of her sacred womb."

Saint Clare of Assisi was born in Assisi in 1194. Very little is known about her infancy and adolescence. The first written information about her tell us that at the age of 18 she cut her hair and took on the dark habit worn by the order of St. Francis, wanting to follow Christ in poverty, humility and charity. She began to live a life of radical poverty and founded to the second franciscan order: the Poor Ladies. St. Clare lived St. Francis' ideal, but from inside the convent, where she spent 43 years of her life. She gave her soul up to God in a convent called Saint Damian on the 11th of August, 1253. Her last words were: "Oh God, blessed are you for having created me."