A YOUTH/YOUNG ADULT TIMELINE | |
FRANCIS was | born into the merchant class of Assisi in 1182 |
a playboy at the age of 18 | |
a soldier at the age of 20 | |
a prisoner of war at the age of 21 | |
bedridden with illness at the age of 22 | |
a crusader at the age of 23 | |
converted by Christ at the age of 23 | |
declared mentally incompetent at the age of 23 | |
brought up on charges of theft at the age of 23 | |
a runaway at the age of 23 | |
poor and homeless at the age of 24 | |
an itinerant preacher at the age of 26 | |
followed by others at the age of 26 | |
a writer at the age of 27 | |
a Middle-Eastern back-packer at the age of 37 | |
religious diplomat at the age of 37 | |
a stigmatist at the age of 43 | |
a poet always, but published at the age of 43 | |
dead at the age of 44 | |
canonized a saint only two years after his death |
A YOUTH/YOUNG ADULT TIMELINE | |
CLARE | was born a noble woman in Assisi in 1193 |
lives in Perugia between the ages of 6-12 | |
leaves home through "the door of the dead" at age 19 | |
is followed by others at the age of 19 | |
becomes an abbess at the age of 22 | |
is granted the "privilege of poverty" at the age of 23 | |
is severely ill at the age of 31 | |
receives last letter from her friend and mentor, Francis | |
and grieves over his subsequent death at the age of 33 | |
becomes a correspondent at the age of 41 | |
sends sisters throughout Europe at the age of 42 | |
repels an invading army in Assisi at the age of 47 | |
is a writer of a Rule at the age of 54 | |
is deathly ill at the age of 57 | |
has her Rule approved at the age of 59 (on her deathbed!) | |
has a miraculous liturgical experience at the age of 59 | |
is dead at the age of 60 | |
is canonized a saint only 2 years after her death |