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Saint Clare of Montefalco
(Santa Chiara da Montefalco, Saint Clare of the Cross)

Feast Day – August 16

Like so many other towns in Umbria, Montefalco is a small city set on a hill.

It overlooks the valley of Spoleto, and some distance to the north Assisi is visible. Here Clare Damiani was born about ; and as a little girl of six she was placed in the convent of Saint Illuminata, where her sister Jane was superior.

August 18 saint feast day

From the beginning little Clare observed the rule of the Third Order of St Francis and added severe penances, keeping strict silence, taking only bread and water, and sleeping on the ground. About eight years later, Clare and the other sisters moved to a new convent, that of Santa Croce, which had been built for them on a nearby hill.

During these years all of them followed the rule of the Third Order; but in the bishop of Spoleto substituted the rule of St Augustine.

After the death of her sister in , Clare, who distinguished hers