St. Clare of Assisi & Scrolls (SAU 027) Postcard

Image Credit (SAU 027): Detail of an antique NeoGothic image of St. Clare of Assisi and Her Spiritual Daughters from a late 19th century chromolithographic devotional print drawn by Baron Jean-Baptiste Bethune (1821-1894) and published by the Socièté de St. Augustin, Bruges, Belgium, in the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera. + The vows a religious makes, the so-called Evangelical Counsels--Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience (reading counterclockwise)--are written in Latin in the scrolls surrounding her. + Feast of St. Clare: August 11