St. Clare and the Poor Clares
- 1193 (1194)
Birth of Clare di Favarone di Offreduccio in Assisi.
- 1200/1202
War between Assisi and Perugia. The Offreduccio family takes refuge in Perugia.
- 1202/1205
Clare makes friends with Filippa and Benvenuta, who later become the first Poor Clares.
- 1205
The Offreduccio family returns to Assisi.
- 1207
Francis restores the church of San Damiano and foretells that a monastery of "ladies who by their renown and the holiness of their life will give glory to the Father..." will be founded beside it.
- 1211
Clare's conversion. Clothing at the Portiuncula. Beginning of the Second Order, the Poor Clares. Francis places Clare in a Benedictine monastery.
- 1211
Her younger sister Catherine joins Clare. Francis receives her and gives her the name Agnes.
- 1215/1216
Clare becomes abbess and receives the privilege of poverty from Innocent III.
- 1218/1219
Cardinal Hugolino becomes protector of the Poor Clares and gives them their own Rule.
- 1224/1225
Beginning of Clare's serious illness.
- 1226.10.03
Francis dies. The next day the funeral procession turns aside to San Damiano, where Clare and her sisters bid farewell to their Father.
- 1228.09.17
Gregory IX renews the privilege of seraphic poverty.
- 1228
The first monastery of the Poor Ladies outside Italy: Santa Maria de las Vírgenes in Pamplona. By this time there are already 24 monasteries in Italy.
- 1234
St. Agnes enters the monastery in Prague.
- 1234-1253
In these years Clare writes four letters to St. Agnes of Prague.
- 1240
The Saracens attack the monastery of San Damiano. Assisi is delivered through Clare's prayer.
- 1245
Blessed Salomea of the Piast dynasty enters the Order of St. Francis as the first Polish Poor Clare, in the monastery at Zawichost.
- 1247
Innocent IV gives the Poor Clares a new Rule.
- 1247-1252
During this period Clare writes her Testament and her Rule.
- 1248.06.17
Cardinal Rinaldo becomes protector of the Poor Clares.
- 1252.09.16
Cardinal Rinaldo approves Clare's Rule with the letter Quia vos.
- 1253.08.09
Innocent IV approves Clare's Rule with the bull Solet annuere.
- 1253.08.10
A Friar Minor brings Clare the approved Rule.
- 1253.08.11
Death of Clare.
- 1253.08.12
Solemn funeral of Clare.
- 1254.11.24
Opening of Clare's canonisation process.
- 1255.08.15
Canonisation of Clare. Blessed Isabelle, sister of St. Louis, King of France, founds a monastery of the Second Order in France.
- 1259
Decision to move the monastery of Blessed Salomea from Zawichost to Skała.
- 1260.10.03
The Saint's body is moved to the Basilica of St. Clare.
- 1263.10.18
Pope Urban IV approves a new Rule for all monasteries of the Second Order and introduces a single name: the Order of St. Clare.
- 1268.11.10
Blessed Salomea dies in the monastery at Skała.
- 1279-1284
Through Blessed Yolanda a monastery of Poor Clares is founded in Gniezno.
- 1280
St. Kinga founds the monastery of the Poor Clares in Stary Sącz.
- 1316/1320
The monastery of Blessed Salomea moves from Skała to Kraków.
- Before 1772
Before the partitions there were seven monasteries of Poor Clares in Poland: Kraków, Stary Sącz, Gniezno, Kalisz, Śrem, Chęciny and Zamość.
- 1782
Dissolution of monasteries; only Kraków and Stary Sącz survive.
- 1850.09.23
The tomb and body of St. Clare are found.
- 1872.10.03
The body is laid in the tomb in the crypt of the Basilica of St. Clare.
- 1895
The original of St. Clare's Rule is found.
- 1958.02.14
Pope Pius XII proclaims St. Clare patron of television.
- 1983
A monastery of Poor Clares is founded in Miedniewice (a foundation from Stary Sącz).
- 1989.11.12
Canonisation of St. Agnes of Prague.
- 1990
The Kraków community founds a monastery in Ghana.
- 1995
A monastery is founded in Zamość (a foundation from Stary Sącz).
- 1997
A new monastery is founded in Skaryszew (a foundation from Kraków).
- 1999.06.16
Canonisation of St. Kinga.