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Saint Clare of Assisi

1194-1253

Feast Day: August 11 (New), August 12 (Trad)

Patronage: eye disease, goldsmiths, laundry, embroiderers, gilders

Saint Clare of Assisi, an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi, founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition, and wrote their Rule of Life—the first monastic rule known to have been written by a woman. Following her death, the order she founded was renamed in her honor as the Order of Saint Clare, commonly referred to today as the Poor Clares. In art, Clare is often shown carrying a monstrance or pyx, in commemoration of the time when she warded away the soldiers of Frederick II at the gates of her convent by displaying the Blessed Sacrament and kneeling in prayer.

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Happy Feast Day Saint Clare of Assisi 1194-1253 Feast Day: August 11 (New), August 12 (Trad) Patronage: eye disease, goldsmiths, laundry, embroiderers, gilders

Saint Clare of Assisi, an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi, founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition, and wrote their Rule of Life—the first monastic rule known to have been written by a woman. Following her death, the order she founded was renamed in her honor as the Order of Saint Clare, commonly referred to today as the Poor Clares. In art, Clare is often shown carrying a monstrance or pyx, in commemoration of the time when she warded away the soldiers of Frederick II at the gates of her convent by displaying the Blessed Sacrament and kneeling in prayer.

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Saint Odilia of Alsace  660-720 Feast Day: December 13 Patronage: eye afflictions and blindness

Saint Odilia (also known as Odile and Ottilia) was born blind to a noble family, and because of the humiliation of her handicap, she was removed from the house and placed in a monastery. At her baptism at the age of 12, she miraculously recovered her eyesight and was restored to her father and the world. Her personal beauty, and her father's wealth and power, attracted many rich suitors to her. She refused them all; and her father himself built a Monastery on the rocks of Hohenburg, wherein she served her divine Lord, governed a large community as Abbess, and gave relief to every sort of suffering until she died of natural causes. {website}

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Happy Feast Day Saint Odilia of Alsace 660-720 Feast Day: December 13 Patronage: eye afflictions and blindness

Saint Odilia (also known as Odile and Ottilia) was born blind to a noble family, and because of the humiliation of her handicap, she was removed from the house and placed in a monastery. At her baptism at the age of 12, she miraculously recovered her eyesight and was restored to her father and the world. Her personal beauty, and her father's wealth and power, attracted to her many rich suitors.  She refused them all; and her father himself built a Monastery on the rocks of Hohenburg, wherein she served her divine Lord, governed a large community as Abbess, and gave relief to every sort of suffering until she died of natural causes. {website}

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Saint Emma of Gurk 980-1045  Feast day: June 27 Patronage: invoked during childbirth and against diseases of the eye

Saint Emma, a noblewoman, also known as Hemma, was a relative of Emperor St. Henry II. She was raised at Henry's court by St. Cunegund, and according to legend was married to Landgrave William of Friesach. Their two children were murdered during an uprising of mines owned by William. Grief-stricken, he made a pilgrimage to Rome and died on the way back. Emma then decided to devote her life to God. She gave liberally to the poor, founded several religious houses and a double monastery at Gurk, Austria. {website}

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Happy Feast Day Saint Lucy  283 - 304  Feast Day: December 13 Patronage: blind, martyrs, Perugia, Italy, epidemics, salesmen, throat infections, writers

Saint Lucy is a 4th c. virgin martyr who died during Diocletian’s persecution of Christians. Little is known of Lucy's life but legend gives us many stories. One is that after the governor ordered her to be defiled at a brothel, guards were not able to move her, even with the help of oxen pulling her. Another was that while being tortured, her eyes were gouged out, yet when her body was being prepared for burial they discovered her eyes had been restored.  {website}

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Happy Feast Day Saint Odilia of Alsace  660-720 Feast Day: December 13 Patronage: eye afflictions and blindness

Saint Odilia (also known as Odile and Ottilia) was born blind to a noble family, and because of the humiliation of her handicap, she was removed from the house and placed in a monastery. At her baptism at the age of 12, she miraculously recovered her eyesight and was restored to her father and the world. Her personal beauty, and her father's wealth and power, attracted many rich suitors to her. She refused them all; and her father himself built a Monastery on the rocks of Hohenburg, wherein she served her divine Lord, governed a large community as Abbess, and gave relief to every sort of suffering until she died of natural causes. {website}