This entire experience remains in my life as one of the finest, holiest most incredible experience I've ever had. Clare's remains as being incorrupt is clearly WRONG and only muddies the entire issue - even as far as are there any such saints' with actual incorrupt remains. It did leave me very confused for years about just what "incorrupt" meant - and to still (as so often is done) refer to St. And there, right on the other side, was the other side of the crystal tomb - just as shown in these pictures - my memory is mostly of the huge collection of bones - but my memory tells me they weren't so "mixed" up.but that could have something to do with my training later as a physician. Once was to Assisi and I clearly remember going through a door (that had something in Italian I didn't understand on it) to the side of the crystal "tomb" where I could clearly see the "body" of St. France (we are Americans- and every school vacation we were off some where. In 1967-68 my family (all 7 of us) lived in Nancy. I'm not sure you'll approve of this but this is true. You can discern Clare's skull in the lower middle right. Here is a photo of the remains of Clare that can be seen only by Poor Clare Sisters. Clare’s remains, gave me permission to post this photograph of St. The mask can be seen by the public today, while her actual relics can be seen only by the sisters who have access to the rear of the crypt.Ī Poor Clare sister, who made a pilgrimage to Assisi and was allowed access to the rear of St. In time, Saint Clare's remains began to deteriorate thus, a mask was constructed to cover her remains, which were soon reduced to bones. Clare, which was instituted by Pope Pius IX, is celebrated by the Franciscans and Conventuals, as well as the Poor Clares. The feast of the Finding of the Body of St. Her remains were put into a crystal coffin, which was placed in a newly constructed crypt (completed in 1872) within the basilica. She was buried with her poor tunic in addition to the rule that she had written. Clare’s body, though blackened with age, was still incorrupt. When it was opened, it was discovered that St. Thus, after seven days the stone coffin containing her body was found. Francis’s remains, in 1850, Pope Pius IX granted permission that excavations be made to search for the body of Clare. Following the excavations and findings of St. Clare lay buried deep under the high altar of her basilica. Construction of a Basilica to honor her memory and contain her remains was completed in 1260, and on October 3 of that year Clare's remains were transferred to the newly completed basilica where they were buried beneath the high altar.įor roughly six centuries, the body of St. On August 15, 1255, Pope Alexander IV canonized Clare as Saint Clare of Assisi. Francis’s remains had initially lain) while an adjacent basilica to hold her relics was being constructed. Her remains were interred at the chapel of San Giorgio (where St. Two days later, Clare died at the age of 59. Just two days before Clare of Assisi died, Pope Innocent IV’s papal bull, Solet annuere, written August 9, 1253, confirmed that Clare’s rule would serve as the governing rule for her community of Poor Ladies at San Damiano.
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