Glimpses #137: Clare of Assisi, a Craving to Imitate Christ



Product Code: GLM137
Format: 4-page bulletin insert
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Product Description: The next day, Clare's family discovered her absence. Enquiries put them on her trail, and they found her. Francis had moved her to the Benedictine convent of San Paolo in Bastia. Gathering armed men around them, father and uncle entered the sanctuary, demanding that Clare return home.

Clare clung to the altar cloth and silently refused to budge. Gone were her jeweled clothes and graceful shoes. She now wore open sandals and coarse cloth.

When the angry men and Clare's weeping mother continued to insist that she return with them, Clare bared her head, and they saw that it was shorn of its lovely blond tresses. Finally her father and his retinue left, helpless in the face of her firm decision.

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