The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare, originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and also known as the Clarisses or Clarissines, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, ...
The 10 remaining Poor Clare Nuns sold the property, which has been a Jamaica Plain landmark for almost 90 years, in 2022. Holland said he has been working with the nuns for the past three years in ...
For the first time since 1883, when Catholic nuns were summoned from France to care for elderly St. Paul residents in poverty, the Little Sisters of the Poor will no longer call the Capital City home.
Sibilla von Bondorf (d c1524), a nun in the Order of Poor Clares, was an accomplished scribe and illuminator. She began her career in the Poor Clares’ convent in Freiburg (Germany) before moving to a ...