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! colspan="2" bgcolor="gold" style="font-size:120%"|Clare of Assisi |- |align="center" colspan="2" | |- |align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="gold"|Titles (see ''Hierarchy definition'' above) |- |Born | July 16 , 1194 , Assisi, Italy |- |Died | August 11 , 1253 ) |- | Canonized |September 26, 1255 by Pope Alexander IV |- | Feast | August 11 |- | Patronage | Needle Workers , Eyes , Gilders , Gold , good Weather , Santa Clara Pueblo , Telephones , Telegraphs , Television |- |colspan="2"|''Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me.'' St. Clare of Assisi |} Saint Clare of Assisi, born '''Chiara Offreduccio''', ( July 16 , 1194 – August 11 , 1253 ) was one of the first followers of Francis Of Assisi and founded the Order Of Poor Ladies to organize the women who chose to take the Franciscan vow of Poverty and Celibacy . Clare was born in Nuns until moving to San Damiano, where Clare and Agnes founded the Order of Poor Ladies (also then known as the Order of San Damiano). In . After Francis's death, Clare continued to promote the growth of her order, writing letters to abbesses in other parts of Europe and thwarting every attempt by each successive Pope to impose a rule on her order of women beyond the order she had originally devised, despite the fact that, after 1224, Clare was frequently ill and unable to leave San Damiano. On August 9 , 1253 , the Papal Bull ''Solet annure'' of Pope Innocent IV confirmed that Clare's Rule would serve as the governing rule for the Order of Poor Ladies. Two days later, on August 11 , 1253 , Clare died at the age of 59. On August 15 , 1255 , Pope Alexander IV canonized Clare as St Clare of Assisi. In 1263 , Pope Urban IV officially changed the name of the Order of Poor Ladies to the " Order Of Saint Clare ". On February 17 , 1958 , Pope Pius XII designated her as the Patron Saint of Television , on the basis that, when she was too ill to attend a Mass, she had been Miraculously able to see and hear it on the wall of her room. Lake Saint Clair (North America) and the Saint Clair River were named on her feast day August 12 , 1679 . Since 1970, her feast day has been the date of her death August 11 in the revised Liturgical Calendar . Her body remains Incorrupt and is displayed in Assisi. External links
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