Chronology

1182 Birth of Francis of Assisi

1198 Revolt of the bourgeois of Assisi who establish the Commune.
1202-1209 War between Assisi and Perugia
1204 Francis takes part in the war against Perugia. He is taken prisoner.
1206 Francis' conversion; his prayer before the crucifix of San Damiano; he repairs this church and predicts the coming of the *Poor Ladies*.
1209 Francis receives his first companions. The Pope approves his Rule.
1210 Francis preaches in Assisi

1215 Francis and Dominic participate in the Fourth Lateran Council.

1217 *Chapter of Mats*: Important assembly of five thousand Brothers around Francis
1219-1220 Francis goes to the Holy Land.

1220 The first Franciscan martyrs in Morocco.
1221 The First Rule of the Brotherhood. Foundation of the Third Order for laypeople.
1223 The Second Rule; Francis celebrates Christmas at Greccio: after this, Christmas cribs become popular.
1224 Francis receives the stigmata on Mount LaVerna.
1225 Francis, sick, composes the Canticle of Creatures.
1226 Death of Francis

1228 Canonization of Francis - First *life* by Celano.

1230 Francis' body is transferred to the Basilica of St. Francis.
1231 Death of St. Anthony of Padua and St. Elisabeth of Hungary.

1246 Brother John of Piancarpino on mission in Mongolia.

1248-1255 St. Bonaventure, a Franciscan, teaches theology at the University of Paris
1250 St. Louis sends three Franciscans on mission to Mongolia

1257-1274 St. Bonaventure is minister general of the Order of Friars Minor.

1193 Birth in Assisi of Clare Offreduccio de Favorone.
1198 Clare's family takes refuge in its castle in Cocorano
1203-1205 Exile in Perugia along with families from nobility at war with the Commune of Assisi.

1210 Clare hears Francis preach
1212 On the evening of Palm Sunday, Clare is consecrated at the Portiuncula (Our Lady of the Angels). Passage to the Benedictines. Settles herself at San Damiano.
1214 Sr. Balvina, Clare's companion, founds a community of Damianites in Spello.
1215 Clare receives the title of abbess.

1216 She obtains the *privilege of the most high poverty*

1218-1219 Clare and her sisters receive the Constitutions of Cardinal Hugolino, along with the Rule of St. Benedict. Damianites at Sienna, Lucca, and Florence, where Agnes, Clare's sister, becomes abbess.
1220 According to tradition, a foundation at Reims -- the first in France.

1224 Beginning of Clare's sickness.

1227 The Pope confirms that the sisters at San Damiano are to receive the help of the Brothers
1228 The first community of Samianites in Spain: Pampelune. At least 24 communities in Italy.

1234 St. Agnes, daughter of the kind of Bohemia, founds a monastery in Prague, and takes the veil there. Clare's first letter to Agnes.
1238 Foundation of Trnava, a monastery of Samianites in Slovakia.
1240 The Saracens at San Damiano; miraculous protection of the community.
1241 June 22 through the intercessory prayers of the sisters, the city of Assisi is liberated from the siege of the imperial armies.
1242 The Blessed Cunegonda founds a monastery in Olomuc in Moravia.
1245 The Blessed Salome founds a monastery in Zawichost in Poland.

1247 Rule of Innocent IV association of the Damianites to the Franciscan Order.

1253 Clare's last known letter to Agnes of Prague. The Pope visits Clare and approves her Rule. August 11, Clare's death. At this date 150 monasteries are associated with her. November - Death of St. Agnes of Assisi (Clare's sister)
1255 Canonization of St. Clare. Celano writes his *life*.

1260 Clare's body and the San Damiano community are transferred to the present monastery of Sta. Chiara of Assisi.
1263 rule of Urban IV. The Order of San Damiano takes the name of the Order of St. Clare.