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Francis and Clare: The Struggles of the Saints of Assisi by Kathleen Brady
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Overview: When the adolescent Lady Clare agreed to secretly meet Francis Bernadone, the eccentric merchant’s son who had become a wandering preacher, she was desperate to avoid the marriage that her parents were arranging for her. Francis, having gathered more than a dozen male followers, including her cousin, believed Clare to be the one to lead the female half of his movement, a movement that was loyal to the church but inspired by heretical sects where women played a prominent part. Over many meetings he promised a future in which she would preach and serve the lepers of Assisi. Warming to his plans, Clare and her kinswoman escaped their family under cover of night and began to live the life that Francis had envisioned. They continued until one particular cardinal, a future pope, took notice.
Francis of Assisi is rightly known for his joyous love of God and nature, but his life was also filled with opposition, as Francis and Clare: The Struggles of the Saints of Assisi shows. Kathleen Brady’s new dual biography reveals that Francis’s neglect of Clare in the face of church opposition was his greatest shame. Clare, fighting against being locked into a cloister, used the fame she derived from their association as her only cudgel in her decades-long battle with the papacy for control of her community.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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