Excerpt from The Princess of Poverty: Saint Clare of Assisi and the Order of Poor Ladies 1. S. Francis and S. Clare of Assisi. - Frontpiece; 2. The Right Rev. Francis Silas Chatard, Bishop of Indianapolis, Ind.; 3. S. Clare receives the Palm from the Bishop of Assisi; 4. Clothing of S. Clare; 5. S. Clare Resists the Entreaties of Her Relatives; 6. Church and Monastery of San Damiano; 7. Noble Ladies begging S. Clare to Admit Them into the New Order; 8. Miraculous Multiplication of Loaves; 9. S. Clare Repels the Attack of the Saracens; 10. S. Francis and S. Clare in Ecstasy at Our Lady of the Angels; 11. S. Clare Blesses the Loaves at the Command of Pope Innocent IV; 12. Cardinal Raynold Administers the Holy Viaticum to S. Clare; 13. Funeral Procession of S. Clare; 14. General View of Assisi; 15. Ruins of Castle Sasso Rosso, Birth-Place of S. Clare; 16. Church and Monastery of S. Clare; 17. Actual Tomb of S. Clare at Assisi; 18 Pope Pius IX., with Autograph; 19 Most Rev. Father Bernardine of Porto-Gruaro, Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor; 20 Mother Mary Magdalen Bentivoglio; 21 Mother Mary Constance Bentivoglio; 22 Residence of the Poor Clares in Philadelphia; 23 First House of the Poor Clares at New Orleans, La; 24 First House of the Poor Clares at Cleveland, Ohio; 25 Right Rev. James O'Connor, Bishop of Omaha, Neb.; 26 The Hon. Count John A. Creighton, Esq., of Omaha, Neb.; 27 Mrs. J. A. Creighton, of Omaha, Neb.; 28 First and Second House at Omaha, Neb.; 29 Monastery of S. Clare, Omaha, Neb.; 30 Monastery of S. Clare, New Orleans, La.; 31 Monastery of Poor Clares at Cleveland, Ohio; 32 Monastery of Poor Clares, Chicago, Ill.; 33 Monastery of S. Clare, Evansville, Ind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.