The Call of Saint Clare Saints First published in 1932

First published in 1932

The Satin Slipper is a sweeping drama

studying art and architecture

because of our human frailty

album: Carols

The Call of Saint Clare Saints First published in 1932By Henri Daniel Rops The life of Saint Clare of Assisi is a love story. This story, as Henri Daniel Rops writes in the opening lines of this volume, though as touching as a romantic novel, is the story of a love fulfilled in God alone. On Palm Sunday, in the year 1212, seventeen year old Clare Offreduccio approached the altar of Blessed Virgin Mary in the poor chapel of Porziuncula. What do you seek? asked Francis of Assisi. The mercy of the Lord and