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  • Wednesday, July 6, 2022
    Madre Maria Amparo del Sagrado Corazon
    On this day in 1941, Madre Maria Amparo del Sagrado Corazon died in Cantalapiedra, Spain. She worked with Juan Arintero (whose Cause for Beatification has been introduced) and this foundation has been one of the most flourishing in Spain. She greatly promoted mystical spirituality in the Order of St. Clare.
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  • Thursday, July 7, 2022
    St. Charles de Foucauld
    St. Charles de Foucauld left Nazareth on this day carrying a letter from the Poor Clares of Nazareth to the Poor Clares in Jerusalem. He stayed for four days. (1898)
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  • Friday, July 8, 2022
    Memorial of Sts. Gregory Grassi and Companions
    Memorial of Sts. Gregory Grassi and Companions, including several Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. There is a contemplative branch in their Order, probably inspired by their foundress’ time as a Poor Clare. (See January 23)
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  • Saturday, July 9, 2022
    Madre Clara Gόmez
    - Madre Clara Gόmez celebrated her Silver Jubilee of Profession in the Havana Poor Clare monastery on this day in 1961. It was only a few months after the Bay of Pigs crisis, and priests and religious were being threatened. Most of the Poor Clare's in Havana had left Cuba by the time Madre Clara had her Jubilee. Some went to Spain, some to Mexico, others went to New Orleans.
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  • Sunday, July 10, 2022
    ✠ 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Benediction 4:30 p.m.
    On July 10th, the Poor Clares ordinarily celebrate St. Veronica Giuliani. This great mystic of Citta di Castello has writings so profound that there have been efforts made to have her declared a Doctor of the Church.
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  • Monday, July 11, 2022
    Memorial of St. Benedict.
    . The Benedictines of Monte Subasio gave to St. Francis the derelict chapel of the Portinuncula, which they owned. He restored it with his own hands, and it was to this little chapel that St. Clare fled in the middle of the night when she joined St. Francis. He cut off her hair at the altar and gave her the Franciscan habit. (See August 2nd)
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  • Tuesday, July 12, 2022
    Sister Marie des Anges
    Sister Marie des Anges set sail for France from New York on the brig Resolution on this day in 1806. She was the last nun to remain in America from the first attempt to bring the Poor Clares to the United States in 1794. The Sisters had fled the French Revolution.
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  • Wednesday, July 13, 2022
    Detroit Poor Clares
    In July of 1834, Poor Clare Sisters helped nurse plague victims when cholera broke out in Detroit. These Poor Clares were members of the second attempt to make a foundation in the United States. They were trying to teach school in order to support themselves. Finally, in 1838 and 1839 the last Sisters of this failed attempt returned to Europe to resume the full Poor Clare life.
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  • Thursday, July 14, 2022
    Optional Memorial of St. Francis Solano
    Optional Memorial of St. Francis Solano – At 11:00 at night, twelve hours after the death of St. Francis Solano, the Poor Clares in the near-by monastery were terrified to see a huge column of fire rise from the oratory where his body lay. They later testified they feared the flame would fall upon their house. (1610)
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  • Friday, July 15, 2022
    Feast of St. Bonaventure
    He wrote to the early Poor Clares a beautiful letter in 1259, a few years after St. Clare’s death. In it he told those early Poor Clares, “May you follow in the footsteps of that Mother, who, formed in the footsteps of the little poor man, St. Francis, was schooled in the Holy Spirit.”
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  • Saturday, July 16, 2022
    Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
    This day has traditionally been celebrated as the birthday of St. Clare.
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  • Sunday, July 17, 2022
    ✠ 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Benediction 4:30 p.m.
    On this day in 1677, Ursula Giuliani received the long-awaited news that she was to enter the Poor Clare Capuchin monastery in Citta di Castello. She received the name of Veronica when she entered and was later canonized.
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  • Monday, July 18, 2022
    Inauguration at San Juan de la Penitencia
    On this day in 1598, a foundation of Poor Clares was inaugurated as San Juan de la Penitencia in Mexico. The indigenous peoples requested this foundation, and they collected alms to finance the monastery. The Sisters were met with native dances and rejoicing.
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  • Tuesday, July 19, 2022
    Ursuline Sisters host Poor Clares
    The Ursuline Sisters of New Orleans began settling into their new convent on this day in 1734. Years later they hosted three Poor Clares fleeing from the French Revolution. Eventually, these Poor Clares left the United States in 1806. (See January 11th and October 24th)
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  • Wednesday, July 20, 2022
    Abbess Catherine Vigri
    Abbess Catherine Vigri was asked by the citizens of Bologna to found a monastery in that city. She agreed, and taking fifteen of her nuns with her, arrived at Bologna on July 22, 1456. Catherine was re-elected as abbess until the end of her life. Famed for her writings and her many virtues, she is now known as St. Catherine of Bologna.
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  • Thursday, July 21, 2022
    Feast of Saint Lawrence of Brindisi
    Saint Lawrence, a Franciscan Friar who was renowned for his powerful preaching and promotion of the Way of the Cross, founded a Poor Clare monastery in 1609 in Brindisi.
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  • Friday, July 22, 2022
    Feast of St. Mary Magdalen
    Pope Francis recently made this day a feast, which is of such significance to all contemplatives. This was the nameday of our American foundress, Mother Mary Maddalena Bentivoglio.
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  • Saturday, July 23, 2022
    Optional Memorial of St. Bridget of Sweden (+1372)
    St. Bridget, after the death of her husband, became a Religious. She made a pilgrimage to Rome and died there in the monastery of Poor Clares of San Lorenzo in Panisperna. Mother Mary Maddalena Bentivoglio came from that monastery to found the Poor Clares in the United States in 1875.
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  • Sunday, July 24, 2022
    ✠ 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Benediction 4:30 p.m.
    Blessed Louise of Savoy died on this day in 1503. At the request of her father, she married the Prince of Chalon; after his death she joined the Poor Clares. As she lay dying, she said: “Adieu, my sisters. I depart for Paradise, where all is most beautiful.”
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  • Monday, July 25, 2022
    Feast of St. James the Apostle
    The mother of Saint Clare made the pilgrimage to St. James of Compestella, at a time when travel was very difficult and dangerous, and people often made out their wills before leaving home.
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  • Tuesday, July 26, 2022
    Memorial of Sts. Joachim and Anne
    Memorial of Sts. Joachim and Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Devotion to the parents of Mary is a later development in Catholic spirituality. They are not mentioned in the writings of Sts. Francis and Clare.
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  • Wednesday, July 27, 2022
    Optional Memorial of Blessed Mary Magdalen Martinengo (+1737)
    This Poor Clare and Abbess is famed for the exquisite spiritual writings she left behind.
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  • Thursday, July 28, 2022
    Death in 1345 of Queen Sancia of Majora
    Death in 1345 of Queen Sancia of Majora, wife of King Robert of Naples and sister-in-law of St. Louis of Anjou, Bishop of Toulouse (August 19th). She built and entered the Poor Clare monastery in Naples after her husband’s death in 1338. She was devoted to the Poor Clares even before she became a nun.
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  • Friday, July 29, 2022
    Memorial of St. Martha
    Memorial of St. Martha, the sister of Mary and Lazarus. Check name of feast. This was the birthday of our American foundress, Mother Mary Maddalena Bentivoglio, born in 1834.
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  • Sunday, July 31, 2022
    ✠ 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Benediction 4:30 p.m.
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