Saint Claire
by VP
Posted on Thursday August 11, 2022 at 12:00AM in Saints
"How great was the devotion St. Clare felt toward the Sacrament of the Altar is shown by the fact that during the severe illness which had confined her to bed she had herself raised in a sitting position and supported by props, and thus she spun the finest linens. From these she made more than fifty sets of corporals and, enclosing them in silken or purple burses, sent them to different churches in the plains and mountains about Assisi. When about to receive the Body of the Lord, Clare she burning tears and approached with awe, for she feared Him not less hidden in the Sacrament than ruling heaven and earth."
Source: The life of Saint Clare; ascribed to Fr. Thomas of Celano 1910
