The Acts of the Process of Canonization: CA:ED, p. 140

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the life and death of Saint Clare and is, therefore, an indispensable source of our knowledge of the saint.^a When it is placed within the context of the procedures approving canonization for the women and men of the thirteenth century, it is an extraordinary document providing information and details that a medieval hagiographer might easily have ignored or considered inconsequential.^b

This translation is based on Santa Chiara di Assisi: I Primi Documenti Ufficiali, Lettera di Annunzio della Sua Morte, Processo e Bolla di Canonizatione. Introduction, Text, Notes, Italian Translation of Latin texts and Critical Apparatus by Giovanni Boccali (Sta. Maria degli Angeli: Edizioni Porziuncola, 2002). The numbering of this text is based on the earlier edition of Ignazio Omaechevarría, Escritos de Santa Clara y Documentos Complementarios, and indicated simply as 1., 2., 3., etc. The text is numbered further according to the text of Giovanni Boccali and superscripted according to that edition. Biblical references or allusions are indicated in the outer margins; cross references to previous texts in the inner margins.
To appreciate the unique significance of this document, see André Vauchez, Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages, trans. Jean Birrell (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

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Clare of Assisi: Early Documents, p. 140

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