Poor Lady

English Etymology Originally an epithet of St Clare of Assisi herself. Noun en Catholicism en Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare. en 1912 St Clare and Her Order 264 ...his widow became a Poor Lady in the convent of Strala, where she long fulfilled the office of abbess... en 1991 Thomas Head https://www.google.fr/books/edition/An_Encyclopedia_of_Continental_Women_Wri/2Wf1SVbGFg8C?pg=PA257 Clare of Assisi An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers Following Francis of Assisi Francis' example, Clare founded an order of religious women known as the Poor Ladies of Assisi (like Francis of Assisi Francis' Poor Men), and later as the Clarissas or Poor Clares in her honor. en 1995 Caroline A. Bruzelius Queen Sancia of Mallorca and the Convent Church of Sta. Chiara in Naples Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 40 75 The rule of Urban IV also clarified the nomenclature of the Clarissas, with the pope designating the group as the Order of St. Claire rather than Poor Ladies, or Poor Recluses, of San Damiano. en eponyms en People Women Monasticism