Stock Photo - Statue of Saint Clare of Assisi outside the Saint Clare of Assisi Church in Woodbridge Ontario, Canada. Saint Clare of Assisi is an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi. She founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition, and wrote their Rule of Life which the first monastic rule known to have been written by a woman. Following her death, the order she founded was renamed in her honor as the Order of Saint Clare, commonly referred to today as the Poor Clares. Pope Pius XII designated her as the patron saint of television in 1958. - WOODBRIDGE, ONTARIO, CANADA, 26/03/2011