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The Neumann Press, Long Prairie, Minnesota. Published 1991. Hardcover, 314 pp.; 20 cm; illustrated with frontispiece and 33 black-and-white plates of illustrations and portraits.
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In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Teal cloth boards with darker lettering and a small decorative cross on the front board, matching lettering on the spine. Mild shelf wear with light bumping at corners and edges, slight weathering of the lettering on the front board. Binding tight. Pages lightly toned. Otherwise unmarked.Republished by The Neumann Press, January 1991, of the work originally issued by The Poor Clares of the Monastery of S. Clare, Evansville, Indiana, in the Holy Year of Jubilee, 1900. Both sets of 1900 approbations are reproduced in this edition: the imprimatur of Francis Silas Chatard, Bishop of Indianapolis (February 20, 1900), and the imprimatur of Fr. Antonius of Tasson, O.M.Cap., Capuchin Minister Provincial of England (January 1, 1900). The author was a Capuchin Franciscan.Contents include: Introduction; Part First, Ancient Biography of the Venerable Virgin S. Clare of Assisi, Written by Order of Pope Alexander IV (Prologue and Chapters I through VI); Part Second, Clare at Home; Clare in the Cloister; The Holy Rule; A Few Incidents from the Life of S. Francis in Relation to S. Clare, Not Mentioned in the Biography; Documents (letters of S. Clare and Cardinal Ugolino, last will and testament of S. Clare, acts of canonization); Part Third, Memoirs of the Coming of the Poor Clares to the United States of North America (with sections on the foundations at Omaha, New Orleans, Cleveland and Chicago, and Evansville); Appendix, Prayer composed by S. Clare in Honor of the Five Wounds of Our Lord; Little Office of the Holy Cross.[Excerpt from the Preface]"Some years ago, while residing in England, I was requested by the Poor Clares to write the life of their Venerable Mother and Founder, Saint Clare of Assisi. I most readily assented, as I always entertained the greatest reverence and esteem for the spiritual Daughters of the Saint on account of their truly humble and penitential lives. But circumstances prevented me from undertaking the work in real earnest, although at various intervals, especially when visiting the famous city which gave birth to the Saint and which still holds her sacred remains, I collected a good deal of useful and important material. Since my arrival in this country, I have again been brought into intimate relations with the lowly Sisters of S. Clare, by whom the request has been again renewed. This time I set about the work resolutely, giving it all the time . . ."