St. Clare of Assisi & Nuns (SAU 027) Neck Tie

Antique NeoGothic image of St. Clare of Assisi and Her Spiritual Daughters from a late 19th-century devotional print in chromolithography by Baron Jean-Baptiste Bethune (1821-1894) and published by the Socièté de St. Augustin, Bruges, Belgium. From the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera. + Reading from left to right, the nuns beneath St. Clare’s mantle in the full-up version are St. Hyacintha of Mariscotti, St. Agnes of Assisi, St. Colette of Corbie, St. Catherine of Bologna, St. Eustochia Calafato, and Bl. Isabella of France. St. Eustochia was canonised in 1988, well after the original publication of this image; hence, the designation “Bl.” (“Blessed”) on the scroll in the lower panel. In addition to St. Clare, only SS. Colette and Catherine are to be seen on the tie. + Feast of St. Clare: August 11