Miracles of St Clare of Assisi
Her feast day was originally assigned to the day after her death, and kept on that day until 1970, partly out of respect for the martyrs Ss Tiburtius and Susanna, whose feast occupies August 11, but also so that her feast could have both Vespers without conflicting with those of St Lawrence.
In art, St Clare is often represented holding a monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament in it, an unusual attribute for any Saint who was not a priest. This custom arises from one of the great miracles which she performed. In the year 1234, the army of Frederick II, which counted a great many Saracens from Sicily in its number, were plundering the part of Umbria which includes Assisi. As the invaders sought to enter the convent at San Damiano, Clare took the ciborium from one of the chapels within the complex, and brought it to a window near the place where the soldiers had set a ladder against the walls in order to scale them. When she raised the Blessed Sacrament on high, the soldiers fell off the ladder and away from the wall as if dazzled, and the whole company of them fled.
St Clare Defends the Walls of Assisi, by Giuseppe Cesari, (often called ‘Cavaliere d’Arpino, 1586-1640), date uncertain; now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. |
St Clare was often very ill, and spent many years practically confined to her bed. Another story is told that one year, when she was too ill to attend the Midnight Mass on Christmas, she was able to be present for the ceremony through a vision, for which reason Pope Pius XII declared her the Patron Saint of television in 1958. (This subject seems to have attracted no attention from artists, inexplicably, and I was unable to find a good representation of it. If anyone knows of one, please be so kind as to let me know in the combox.)
The Vision of St Clare (not the Midnight Mass vision), by Guercino, 1615-21, also from the Hermitage. |
Source: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2016/08/miracles-of-st-clare-of-assisi.html
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