Tau PublishingThe Basilica of Saint Clare
The Story Behind the Story
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-663-7
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-423-7
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-424-4
- Pages
- 74
- Size
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound first edition, 2023
- Language
- English
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About this book
“As soon as we enter Santa Chiara we sense that this is, in some indefinable way, a feminine church.” — Sr. Frances Teresa Downing, OSC, from the Preface
Exploring a holy site is like detective work: first impressions matter not for their own sake but for the clues they give. Fr. Joe Schwab, OFM, began this book while translating a detailed Italian study by Sr. Anastasia, a Poor Clare of the Protomonastery in Assisi, and then wrote a guide that is less technical and more accessible to the visitor to St. Clare’s Basilica.
Rather than leading you from fresco 1 to fresco 7, it is like a companion who sits beside you on the pew as your eye roves over the scene, opening the layers of meaning behind the altar enclosure and the medieval liturgy, the frescoes, the Great Crucifix and the San Damiano Crucifix, the St. Clare Dossal, the Madonna della Cortina and the bells. With the author’s color photographs.
Inside
- Preface by Sr. Frances Teresa Downing, OSC, Introduction and Acknowledgements
- Eight chapters: The Story behind the Story, The Altar Enclosure and the Medieval Liturgical Experience, Frescoes, The Great Crucifix, The San Damiano Crucifix, The St. Clare Dossal, The Madonna della Cortina, The Bells
- Conclusion, bibliography and endnotes