In the transept of the Basilica of Saint Clare in Assisi, a woman meets the visitor’s gaze with striking simplicity. It is ...

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At the age of 18, her relatives proposed an aristocratic marriage to her, but she distributed all her possessions to the poor ...

If one day I were to make another film about Francis, and it would be the fourth, I would give even more space to the figure ...

I entered the Capuchin Poor Clares monastery in Naples 8 October 2013, after celebrating the solemnity of Saint Francis with ...

Dacia Maraini is one of the most widely loved and translated writers in contemporary Italian literature: novelist, poet, ...

To mark the 800th anniversary of the death of Saint Francis, Tv2000, the television channel operated by the Italian Bishops’ ...

“Without Clare, there is no Francis” remains a true statement, but it risks preserving an old adage, that behind every great ...

And yet peace is a revolutionary word from its very etymology. Who knows why it is misunderstood, why it is understood as ...

The year was 1225; Princess Agnes, daughter of King Ottokar I of Bohemia, was betrothed to the son of the Emperor Frederick ...

Nuns could not be poor. Clare said “no” precisely to this impossibility of poverty.

By Francesco Patton In his first piece in a series of features dedicated to Bible characters published in the daily ...