Tau PublishingSaint Clare of Assisi, Volume One
The Original Writings
by Sr. Frances Teresa Downing, OSC
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-004-8
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-896-9
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-897-6
- Pages
- 266
- Size
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound bilingual Latin–English edition, © 2012
- Language
- English
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About this book
“Clare is like the light at noonday.” — a favourite medieval text for preaching on St. Clare
The first comprehensive bilingual Latin–English edition of the writings of St. Clare of Assisi, and the first English translation of them by a woman of Clare’s own Order. Sister Frances Teresa Downing, a Poor Clare, sets the Latin and English on facing pages, with notes that show how Clare’s words echo Scripture and the early Franciscan sources.
Here are all of Clare’s writings that have come down to us: her four letters to St. Agnes of Prague, the letter to Blessed Ermentrude, her Blessing, the Form of Life (the first rule written by a woman for women) and her Testament. An introduction by Jean-François Godet-Calogeras sets them in context.
Translated from the most recent critical editions, the English is written to fall easily on the ear, for the many Poor Clare communities that still read the Form of Life and the Testament aloud.
Inside
- Introduction by Jean-François Godet-Calogeras and Translator’s Comments
- The Letters of Saint Clare: four letters to St. Agnes of Prague and the letter to Blessed Ermentrude
- The Blessing of Saint Clare
- The Form of Life, with its own introduction and notes
- The Testament of Saint Clare
