Santa Chiara
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Santa Chiara is Italian
for Saint Clare.
Santa Chiara may refer to:
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
for Saint Clare.
Santa Chiara may refer to:
- Santa Chiara (church)Santa Chiara (church)Santa Chiara is a church in the Campus Martius area of Rome dedicated to Saint Clare of Assisi. It was founded by Saint Charles Borromeo, who built a Franciscan convent and the church within the ruins of the Baths of Agrippa in 1592...
, several churches with this name - Basilica di Santa Chiara, in Assisi
- St. Clare of Assisi, founder of the Poor Clares and companion of St. Francis
- St. Clare of Montefalco, an Augustinian nun and abbess of the 13th century