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that only the piazza was between her house and that of the virgin Clare.a She frequently conversed with her.
3. 7She said the Lady Clare very much loved the poor and all the citizens held her in great veneration because of her good manner of life. 8When she was asked how much time had passed since the virgin Clare had left the world, she said it was about forty-two years.b 9When she was asked how she knew this, she replied she had entered the Order at the same time with her and had served her for the most part almost day and night.c
4. 10She also said Lady Clare was born of noble stock, of noble father and mother.d Her father was a knight, Sir Favarone, whom she, the witness, had never seen. 11But she saw her mother, Ortulana. This lady, Ortulana, went beyond the sea for reasons of prayer and devotion.e 12She likewise testified she, [the witness], accompanied her beyond the sea for reasons of prayer and devo- tion. They also went together to Sant’Angelo and to Rome.f 13She said she willingly visited the poor. 14Asked how she knew these things, she replied: because she was her neighbor and was with her, as mentioned above.
- Clare’s house was located on one side of the piazza of San Rufino, cf. Giuseppe Abate, La casa paterna di S. Chiara e falsificazione storiche dei XVI e XVII intorno all medesima santa e San Francesco d’Assisi (Assisi: Casa Editrice Francescana, 1946); Nuovi studi sull’ubicazione della casa paterna di S. Chiara (Assisi: Casa Editrice Francescana, 1954).
- The difficulty of the chronology of St. Clare becomes apparent at this point. The date of her death is certain, August 11, 1253. Yet that of her birth, eighteen years before her entrance into religious life, as well as that of her flight to the Portiuncula, are obscure. March 28, 1211 is suggested as the date of the Palm Sunday of Clare’s flight to the Portiuncula, which would suggest her birth in 1193, cf. Zefferino Lazzeri, “Il Processo di canonizzazione di santa Chiara,” AFH XIII (1920): 434-435; Fausta Casolini, Vita di Santa Chiara Vergine di Tommaso da Celano (Santa Maria degli Angeli: 1962), 34; Chiara Augusta Lainati, Santa Chiara d’Assisi (Assisi, 1970); Temi Spirituali degli Scritti del Secondo Ordine, ed. Chiara Augusta Lainati (Assisi: Sta. Maria degli Angeli, 1970). Others place the date of the flight to the Portiuncula at March 18, 1212, which would place Clare’s birth in 1194, cf. Écrits, 68; Domenico Cresi, “Cronologia di santa Chiara,” Studi Francescani XXV (1953): 260-267; Lothar Hardick, “Zur Chronologie im Leben der hl. Klara,” Franziskanische Studien XXXV (1953): 174-210; Arduino Terzi, Cronologia della vita di San Francesco d’Assisi (Rome: n.p., 1963), 56-62.
- It does not seem that Pacifica accompanied Clare in her flight to the Portiuncula. Her silence in this instance is significant.
- Cf. Gemma Fortini, “The Noble Family of St. Clare of Assisi,” Franciscan Studies 42 (1982): 48-67.
- That is, to the Holy Land.
- Sant’Angelo refers to the Shrine dedicated to Saint Michael on Monte Gargano in Apulia, Southern Italy. Two letters of Pope Gelasius I written between 492 and 496 suggest its origins go back to the end of the 5th Century. The 8th Century Liber de Apparitione Sancti Michaeli in Monte Gargano describes four dramatic apparitions that made this a favorite place of pilgrimage for medieval Christians. Cf. Linda Kay Davidson, Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Research Guide (New York: Garland, 1992).