Until recent times, Saint Clare’s feast was celebrated on August 12^th, and it was on the former feast of St. Clare that a whole seminary of Claretians were put to death during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. (The executions began on August 12^th and continued for several days.)  St. John Paul II observed as he beatified them on October 25, 1992:
“The students were confined with other religious in a makeshift prison in the basement of a theatre where they spent their time in prayer. They confessed their sins whenever it was possible and received Communion, praying for courage and perseverance.”