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Saints don’t fall in love, but their stories can be romantic. Legends have long
paired male and female saints as intimate but chaste companions — St. Paul and
St. Thekla proselytized together in first-century Syria, for instance, and St.
Boniface and St. Leoba were buried together in the wilds of medieval Germany.
Although those who recorded saints’ lives borrowed motifs from love stories, the
romance of saints lay in their resistance to ordinary human pleasures. Today’s
Daily Dose explores one such pair who ran off from their respective lives of
privilege to answer their true calling.

— with reporting by Lisa Marie Bitel





BECOMING A SAINT

A Daring Escape

One of the most celebrated saintly couples came from 12th century Tuscany.
Medieval documents tell us that Francesco was a renegade son of a rich merchant.
He left home without a penny, preferring to beg for a living. Chiara Offreduccio
came from the aristocracy. One Sunday while sitting in church with her noble
parents, Chiara made her decision. That night, as the rest of the household
slept, she slipped out a back door and hurried to a secret meeting place where
Francesco awaited her … with a pair of shears.

A Life of Commitment

Francesco chopped off all of Chiara’s hair, then hustled her to a nearby
convent. Her family rushed after her and cornered them in the convent’s church.
Chiara’s father tried to drag her home, but she whipped off her hood to reveal
her shorn head. She had already become a nun. Despairing, her family left.
Chiara was triumphant. She knew it would be a tough and hungry life with
Francesco, yet nothing mattered more to her than being with her beloved, to whom
she pledged herself.

Radical Reform

The year was 1212, the place was Assisi and the bridegroom was Jesus. Chiara
Offreduccio is known to modern English speakers as St. Clare and Francesco is
St. Francis of Assisi, the barefoot friar now so popular as a garden statue.
Clare did not run away with Francis. She ran off to join his radical reform
movement and embrace his life of scriptural poverty.

San Damiano

Francis eventually settled Clare with other women at the rebuilt church of San
Damiano. After she was settled, Francis left, insisting that Clare remain inside
the convent walls. He rarely visited San Damiano after that. He never mentioned
her in his spare writings. Clare touched him just one time: when she tended his
body before burial, a tender scene painted by Giotto on the walls of the
Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi.

 





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Allure in Film

Clare’s dramatic elopement to be with Francis has tantalized movie-makers since
the days of silent film. Italian directors made three silent movies about the
pair before 1920. Roberto Rossellini turned Francis into a holy fool who shares
a mystical conversation with Clare. In Federico Fellini’s version, the two are
happy flower children who contest with the older generation to help the
dispossessed. A famous scene shows them running in slo-mo toward each other,
arms outstretched, through a sunny field.

A Hollywood Romance

Hollywood also was interested in the romance of saints. The 1961 film Francis of
Assisi, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bradford Dillman as Francis and
Dolores Hart as Dona Clara, follows the same basic plot as medieval legends.
Francis is the cheerful, feckless son of a merchant. Dona Clara is as beautiful
as a statue and as forgiving as — well, a saint. When Francis deserts the army,
she defends his pacifist position. She is patient with his strange visions. When
he puts on a brown dress and starts pulling a cart of stones around town, she
supports him. “Love has been a confused thing with me,” she sighs.

Casting a Star

Dolores Hart was only 22 when she starred as Dona Clara, but she had already
made it big, co-starring with Elvis Presley in Loving You (1957) and King Creole
(1958). On set for Francis of Assisi, she met Pope Paul XXIII who exclaimed,
“You are Clare!” She visited the preserved body of Clare in the Basilica di
Santa Chiara in Assisi.





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DOLORES’ DESTINY

Finding a Habit

Dolores made more films after her role as Clara. She was prosperous, happy and
engaged to an architect named Don Robinson. Yet two years after Francis of
Assisi wrapped, Dolores gave it all up and entered the Abbey of Regina Laudis in
Connecticut, an enclosed convent of Benedictine nuns.

Seeing a Path

In her autobiography, The Ear of the Heart: An Actress’ Journey from Hollywood
to Holy Vows, Dolores denies that playing Clare provoked her decision. She
simply discovered that she loved God more than her fiancé or her career. Just
before entering the convent, she wrote in a letter to Him, “You want me for
Yourself — this I know without any doubt.” In the Oscar-nominated 2011
documentary about her life, God Is the Bigger Elvis, Dolores echoes the Dona
Clara she played on film. “How do you explain God?” she asks. “How do you
explain love?” Dolores admits it is still easier for her to describe kissing
Elvis than what she feels for God.

The Language of Love

“Falling in love is falling in love,” says Wendy R. Wright, a professor emerita
of theology at Creighton University. “And any commitment to religious life,
especially the monastic life, has to be motivated and sustained by a deep love.
Catholic spirituality is saturated with the language of love.” Nuns, for
example, consider themselves brides of Christ. 

Yet Dolores’ passion is not the same as Clare’s love for God or for Francis.
Dolores, like her character in the Curtiz film, distinguishes between religious
and secular ways of loving, between Jesus and her fiancé. Although Robinson
married another woman, he visited Dolores every year until he died. Dolores has
said she never regretted her decision. 

The Inner Spirit

“I think that there’s a romantic love that exists between persons, and it’s not
that you bring it to a beautiful friendship, you bring it to a transcendent
level where you really do believe and know that you meet Christ in the other
person,” Hart told Eternal Word Television Network in 2013. “I believe that Don
brought to me that reality.”



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