Pope John XXIII was a Third Order member of the Order of Saint Francis, and was devoted to both St. Francis and St. Clare. Father André Cirino, O.F.M., writes: “[John] did not forget the Poor Clares in Paris, Rome, or Venice… When visiting a monastery where there was adoration day and night, he asked which sister did her adoration at two in the morning, and when they told him, he joyfully exclaimed to her: ‘I, too, will be in prayer with you.’ He explained that he arose at that hour to pray and work because of the silence and peace.”