Saint Clare of Assisi

Icon, 28 x 21 cm - sold!

Saint Clare was the first woman to embrace the way of life of Saint Francis, who himself cut her hair as a sign of consecration to God in a life of extreme poverty. She developed the female branch of the Franciscan order. When the Saracens sought to seize the monastery of San Damiano in 1240, she went out to meet them with the monstrance containing the Eucharist, and the fierce warriors turned back.