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The Order of Poor Ladies, also known as the Order of Saint Clare, the Poor Clares, the Poor Clare Sisters, the Clarisse, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Congregation, or the Second Order of St. Francis, (In Latin ordo sanctae Clarae ), is an order of nun
Nun

A Nun is a woman who has taken special vows committing her to a religious life. She may be an monasticism who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent....
s in the Roman Catholic Church
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. It was the second Franciscan
Franciscan

The term Franciscan is commonly used to refer to members of Catholic religious orders that follow a body of regulations known as "The rule of St....
 order to be established, founded by Saints Clare of Assisi
Clare of Assisi

Saint Clare of Assisi, born Chiara Offreduccio is an Italian people saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi. She founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monasticism religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition....
 and Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi was a friar and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans.He is known as the patron saint of animals, the Natural environment and Italy, and it is customary for Catholic Church es to hold ceremonies honoring animals around his feast day of 4 October....
 in 1212.






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The Order of Poor Ladies, also known as the Order of Saint Clare, the Poor Clares, the Poor Clare Sisters, the Clarisse, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Congregation, or the Second Order of St. Francis, (In Latin ordo sanctae Clarae ), is an order of nun
Nun

A Nun is a woman who has taken special vows committing her to a religious life. She may be an monasticism who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent....
s in the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
. It was the second Franciscan
Franciscan

The term Franciscan is commonly used to refer to members of Catholic religious orders that follow a body of regulations known as "The rule of St....
 order to be established, founded by Saints Clare of Assisi
Clare of Assisi

Saint Clare of Assisi, born Chiara Offreduccio is an Italian people saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi. She founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monasticism religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition....
 and Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi was a friar and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans.He is known as the patron saint of animals, the Natural environment and Italy, and it is customary for Catholic Church es to hold ceremonies honoring animals around his feast day of 4 October....
 in 1212. The Poor Ladies, founded Palm Sunday in the year 1212, were organized after the Order of Friars Minor (the first order), and before the Third Order
Third order

The term Third Order designates persons who live according to the Third Rule of a Roman Catholic religious order. Their members, known as Tertiaries, are generally lay members of religious orders, i.e....
 of penitents
Penance

Penance is repentance of sins as well as the proper name of the Catholic and Orthodox Christian Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation/Confession....
 or tertiaries
Tertiaries

Tertiaries , are associations of lay folk connected with the Mendicant Orders. The old monastic orders had had attached to their abbeys Confraternity of Christian Doctrine of lay men and women, going back in some cases to the 8th century....
, of which the secular part was later called the Secular Franciscan Order
Secular Franciscan Order

The Secular Franciscan Order is a community of Roman Catholic men and women in the world who seek to pattern their lives after Christ in the spirit of St....
. As of 2004 there are over 20,000 Poor Clare nuns in over 20 observances and federations living in over 76 countries throughout the world.

In Medieval England their convent was located near Aldgate
Aldgate

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, known as the Abbey of the Order of St Clare. The order gave its name to the still-extant street known as Minories
Minories

The Minories Its name is derived from the Abbey of Order of Poor Ladies of the Order of St. Clare, founded in 1294, which stood on the site. A "minoress" was a nun....
 on the eastern boundary of the City of London
City of London

The City of London is a geographically small city status in the United Kingdom within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew....
. The Poor Clares were brought to the United States in 1875 when Mother Maddalena Bentivoglio and her sister Constanza were sent by Pope Pius IX to establish a monastery of Poor Clares of the Primitive Observance. The Proto-monastery was established in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1878.

One branch of the Poor Clares (OSC) follows the "Rule of St. Clare," which was approved by Pope Innocent IV the day before St. Clare died in 1253. Other branches are the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration (PCPA) (originally known as the Franciscan Nuns of the Blessed Sacrament, founded in 1854, counting Mother Angelica
Mother Angelica

Mother Angelica, Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration is an United States Roman Catholic Church nun and founder of the Eternal Word Television Network....
 among its members), the Capuchin Poor Clares, and the Colettine Poor Clares (PCC).

The Convent

In June and July 2006 BBC Two
BBC Two

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 broadcast a television series called The Convent , in which four women were admitted to the monastery for a period of six weeks.

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