Death in 1905 of Mother Mary Veronica Elmendorff, foundress of the Poor Clares (Colettines) in the United States. The Poor Clare Colettines arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1877. On November 5, 1315 Dante Alighieri was banished for the final time from Florence. He went to Ravenna and continued working on his Divine Comedy. There is a Poor Clare in Canto III of the Paradiso, Piccarda di Donati. She was forcibly abducted from the monastery and married off for political reasons. She refers to St. Clare: “A perfect life and merit high in heaven / A lady o’er us [St. Clare], by whose rule/ Down in your world they … veil themselves…” Canto III:99