Clare

St., born in 1193, of a noble family of A isi; in 1212 retired to the Portiuncula of St. Francis, and in the same year founded the order of Francis can nuns. She died Aug. 11, 1253, THe NUNS OF THE ORpDER OF ST. Ciara (also called the Poor Clares) at first observed the strictest Benedictine rule, but the austerity of this rule was mitigated by St. Francis in 1224, and further modified by Urban IV. in 1265. A_ large proportion of the - nuns adopted Urban’s rule.