Given this, we have an obvious patron saint–St. Clare of Assisi. Who was she? How does her life speak to us today in Silicon Valley, in our daily experience of long commutes, uncertain employment, ...

Clare of Assisi (1193-1253) may be unique among the saints of the Catholic Church for the abundance of horticultural references surrounding her life and legacy. Commemorating Clare with a garden is ...

WE HAVE become accustomed to hearing the name of St Clare of Assisi alongside that of St Francis. Indeed, she referred to herself as his “little plant”. While she certainly flourished from the ...

But one radical misfit in particular, Francis of Assisi, seems to loom larger ... had a hard time understanding most of these saints’ life choices. Clare’s desire for a “celestial spouse ...