Book Review of St. Clare of Assisi: Light from the Cloister
The Life of Saint Clare from the Perspective of a Third Order Secular Franciscan Bret Thoman, OFS By Gregg Garrison, OFS, Minister TITLE & CITATION: Thoman, Bret, OFS. St. Clare of Assisi: Light from the Cloister. Charlotte, North Carolina: TAN Books, 2017. 239 pages. Available in Hardcover ($24.95) and Kindle ($9.98). AUTHOR: Bret Thoman, OFS, author, Forward by Rosella Chiara Mancinelli, and Afterward by Murray Bodo, OFM. BOOK REVIEW: The biography of Saint Clare in St. Clare of Assisi: Light from the Cloister is researched and written from the unique perspective of a Third Order Secular Franciscan. Saint Clare of Assisi (16 JUL 1194 – 11 AUG 1253) was born Chiara Offreduccio. Saint Claire was canonized on 15 AUG 1255. Thoman did not write a traditional biography. He states in his Author’s Note: “What follows is not a work of academia, objective biography, or straight history. Instead, I have sought something else: an historical narrative.” T