Sr. Frances Teresa Downing, OSC

Sister Frances Teresa Downing, OSC, is a member of the Community of Poor Clares at Arundel and lives in a small community on the edge of a council estate in East Sussex. She has lived the Poor Clare life for more than fifty years.

Her five-volume Saint Clare of Assisi includes the first comprehensive bilingual Latin–English edition of Clare’s writings, and the first English translation of them by a woman of Clare’s own Order. She is also the author of the acclaimed Living the Incarnation: Praying with Francis and Clare of Assisi.