. (Usually, this day is the Memorial of Saint Teresa of Jesus [Avila]; but this year the day falls on a Sunday.) “As I was going to Communion on her feast, Saint Clare appeared to me in great beauty, and bade me take courage, and go on with what I had begun; she would help me. I began to have a great devotion to St. Clare; and she has so truly kept her word, that a monastery of nuns of her Order in our neighborhood helped us to live; and, what is of more importance, by little and little she so perfectly fulfilled my desire that the poverty which the blessed Saint observes in her own house is observed in this [house], and we are living on alms. – St. Teresa, Autobiography, xxxiii:15