HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: The Imitation Of Christ, Poor Clares, Pope Honorius Iv
23 Nov 2020
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It looked briefly as though their stature might change when honorius iv (1285 1287) the first franciscan to become pope, ascended to the holy see, his pontificate ended quickly. Like dominic, st. francis established an affiliated order of female mendicants. A young woman from assisi named clare, the daughter of a wealthy merchant family, came under the spell of francis" preaching, in 1212 she organized a group of young women who wanted to devote themselves to pious works. Francis established the women at the nearby church of san damiani and hence the women became initially known as damianites, although the sisters soon took the name of poor clares. Like the male franciscans, the poor clares followed the imitatio christi and advocated evangelical poverty. They did not work in the world, however, were cloistered like dominican nuns. The rule that clare wrote for her sisterhood was the first female-authored rule in christian history.
