PRAT, La Théologie de Saint Paul; VAN NOORT, Tractatus de Deo Creatore; HARTMANN, Lehrbuch der Dogmatik; VANDON, La Paroisse ; Plan for the Affiliation of Colleges and High Schools to the University. — The Sisters College Building Fund.-Summer Session of the Sisters College. The Catholic University Bulletin. Vol. XVIII. June, 1912. "Let there be progress, therefore; a widespread and eager progress in every century and epoch, both of individuals and of the general body, of every Christian and of the whole Church, a progress in intelligence, knowledge and wisdom, but always within their natural limits, and without sacrifice of the identity of Catholic teaching, feeling and opinion."-ST. VINCENT OF LERINS, Commonit, c. 6. No. 6. PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA WASHINGTON, D. C. In view of the seventh centenary of the Poor Clares which occurs this year, the history of St. Clare is being made the subject of fresh researches by students of the Franciscan Legend. Although those who venture upon this well-trodden field in the hope that therein they may unearth some new material incur considerable risk of failure, yet the discovery of any document which did but wrest a fact or two more from the past about this most elusive of the Saints would be a distinct asset. For I think all whose opinion is worth noticing will grant that if the life story of St. Clare is in some respects one of the most interesting and inspiring in medieval history it is, at the same time, one of the most perplexing. Large as her figure looms in the Franciscan legend, the personality behind it remains vague and shadowy. Indeed the annals of the Order are full of other lives that, less outstanding, are yet better known to us than that of St. Clare. This however, is partly accounted for by the fact that not all the contemporary records bearing upon her life have come down. We can only lament the silence of history concerning these records. Without doubt some of them perished along with other early Franciscan documents as a result of the decree to us. 1 See Lucien Roure: "Sainte Claire d'Assise" in Etudes (Paris, 1910); t. cxxiv, pp. 297-316. |