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| Translator’s Preface |
3 |
| Author’s Preface |
6 |
| Chapter I – Time of Saint Clare’s Birth |
11 |
| Chapter II – Childhood of Saint Clare |
16 |
| Chapter III – Entrance of Saint Clare into the Hermitage of her Sister, the Blessed Johanna |
20 |
| Chapter IV – Early Life of Saint Clare in the Hermitage |
24 |
| Chapter V – Foundation of a New Hermitage; Its Difficulties and Wants |
32 |
| Chapter VI – Saint Clare is appointed to collect Alms for the Hermitage |
36 |
| Chapter VII – Saint Clare is tried by Temptations |
41 |
| Chapter VIII – The Hermitage is erected into a Convent under the Rule of Saint Augustine; Blessed Johanna is chosen Abbess, and dies soon afterwards |
45 |
| Chapter IX – Saint Clare is Elected Abbess |
52 |
| Chapter X – Brief Review of Saint Clare’s Conduct in the Government of her Convent |
56 |
| Chapter XI – Progress of Saint Clare in Virtue generally, but especially in the Theological Virtues |
61 |
| Chapter XII – Saint Clare’s Love of her Neighbor |
70 |
| Chapter XIII – Saint Clare’s Love of her Enemies |
81 |
| Chapter XIV – The Cardinal Virtues of Saint Clare |
87 |
| Chapter XV – The Life of Penance led by Saint Clare |
93 |
| Chapter XVI – The Zeal of Saint Clare in the Observance of her Monastic Vows |
98 |
| Chapter XVII – Humility of Saint Clare |
105 |
| Chapter XVIII – Saint Clare’s Reputation for Sanctity |
109 |
| Chapter XIX – Saint Clare Recovers Her Interior Peace |
113 |
| Chapter XX – Saint Clare receives the Impression of the Mysteries and Instruments of the Passion and of the Symbol of the Most Holy Trinity. She afterwards builds a Convent Church |
116 |
| Chapter XXI – The Infused Knowledge of Saint Clare, and the Use which she made of it for the Salvation of Souls |
121 |
| Chapter XXII – Saint Clare Disputes with Heretics and Refutes Them |
126 |
| Chapter XXIII – Saint Clare’s Spirit of Prophecy |
133 |
| Chapter XXIV – Visions and Ecstasies of Saint Clare |
140 |
| Chapter XXV – Miracles worked by Saint Clare |
148 |
| Chapter XXVI – Last Illness and Death of Saint Clare |
152 |
| Chapter XXVII – On the Glory with which God honored Saint Clare after Death |
161 |
| Chapter XXVIII – Discovery of the Emblems of the Holy Mysteries of the Passion of Jesus in the Heart of Saint Clare, and of the Symbol of the Holy Trinity in her Gall |
164 |
| Chapter XXIX – Wonderful Preservation of Saint Clare’s Body and Blood, of her Heart and the Emblems. Ebullition of her Blood as a Presage of Great Calamities |
175 |
| Chapter XXX – Miracles worked by Saint Clare after her Death; The Process for her Canonization |
180 |
| Chapter XXXI – Resumption of the Cause of Saint Clare; its Vicissitudes and Happy Termination |
189 |
| Chapter XXXII – Miracles Approved for the Canonization of Clare |
199 |
| Conclusion |
211 |
| Appendix |
214 |
| DECREE CONCERNING HER MIRACLES |
216 |
| The Heart of Saint Clare of Montefalco |
222 |
