St Clare of Assisi Author:Nesta de Robeck "The little plant which Saint Francis our blessed father planted in the garden of poverty." Such was the self-portrait of St. Clare of Assisi, the daughter of a noble family who, attracted to the life of cloistered poverty through the Little Poor Man's example and teaching, founded the Order of the Poor Clares. Here is her story, told against ... more »the background of the seething history that was Italy in the thirteenth century from which the Saint emerges as a bright light.« less