Article: Update: nuns won't be deported.(USA)(Brief Article)

Article: Woman healed by the Poor Clares now brings 'Clare ...
National Catholic Reporter;  February 17, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... Assisi and founder of the Poor Clares, was widely recognized ... and wisdom, that the Poor Clares are all about," she ... from the Bloomington Poor Clares, commissioned her to ... five years, in the United States, Belgium, England ...

Article: Poor Clares pray in long shadows of ...
National Catholic Reporter;  February 17, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... sisters. Some of the world's 18,000 Poor Clares wear head-to-toe habits, some street ... support themselves by manual labor. The Poor Clares of Brenham, Texas, for instance ... But ample voluntary donations free the Poor Clares in Bloomington to offer spiritual direction ...

Article: Sister Olivia's ornaments: When it comes to financial survival, ...
New Orleans Magazine;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... shop, and suddenly I felt like the Poor Clares and I were on the same page. We all ... shoppers love to buy items that the Poor Clares make by hand. Sister Olivia came to ... proved to be too large an event for the Poor Clares to continue. She designs a couple new ...

Article: POOR CLARES: THE NOISIEST MONASTERY IN THE ...
The Virginian Pilot;  January 7, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... of Roswell, N.M., wrote that the Poor Clares ``fill the world with a spiritual ... right. Bedtime for the Newport News Poor Clares was 8:45 p.m., and at 12:30 ... Mary Francis' point. A few of the Poor Clares were given permission to talk with me ...

Article: POOR CLARES LIFE OF SOLITUDE CLARES FOUNDER GAVE UP ...
Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  October 19, 1997 ;     621 words ... ... would create a yearly revenue for the Poor Clares, Clare argued against it. She wanted ... wishes and wrote an order saying the Poor Clares should not be forced to own anything ... time she wrote her own rules for the Poor Clares, instructing them to own nothing ...

Article: Breaking the silence: the poor Clares and the ...
Renaissance Quarterly;  June 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... Sano di Pietro in the 1470s for the Poor Clares at Santa Chiara in Siena provide a glimpse ... recipients of the breviary were Observant Poor Clares, for the painted nuns wear the coarse ... breviary, makes one wonder whether the Poor Clares were in fact guilty of inconstancy ...

Article: St. Clare, Foundress of the Poor Clares.(Opinion)
Manila Bulletin;  August 10, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... memorial of St. Clare, Foundress of the Poor Clares.St. Clare was born on July 16, 1194 ... founded a new religious order called the Poor Clares. Her 15-year-old sister Agnes joined ... other noble ladies soon followed. The Poor Clares observed perpetual abstinence and constant ...