Youtube posting

I managed to catched a glimpse of Poor Clare Monastery in Roswell, New Mexico, posted on Youtube. ( Poor Clare Monastery in Belleville, Illinois  is a sister church of the Roswell church.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm_8MUct7VA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=yQRMHkMzOO0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=mYmi3Ut4LEc


*Saint Francis of Assisi ( feast Oct 4 ) was the founder of the franciscan order.
*Saint Clare of Assisi (feast Aug 11) was the founder of the Poor clares or Second Order of St. Clares.
*Saint Colette of Corbie (feast Feb 7) was the founder of the Colettine Poor Clare or the Third Order of St. Francis.

*Henry of Beaume was the spiritual protector and confessor of Saint Colette.
Here is a copy of the short biography of Henry Beaume, from the website http://users.bart.nl/~roestb/franciscan/index.htm

Henricus de Beaume (Henricus de Balma/Henri de Beaume, ca. 1367-1439), beatus

Born ca. 1367 in Savoie, in a noble family in the service of the Burgundian dukes. Probably entered the order in Chambéry (Savoie) in the Burgundian Franciscan province, after studies in the arts and theology. According to Katherine Rufiné, he lived in the Mirebaeu convent, which became under the influence of the Observance. After 1406, when Henri already had established himself as a prominent itinerant preacher in the French provinces, he became one of the close collaborators and confessors of Colette of Corbie. That year Henri travelled with Colette to the papal court in Nice, where pope Benedict XIII allowed Colette to become a poor Clare and granted her the power to found a reformed female religious community. Henri was made counsellor and collaborator of Colette, with the urgent wish of the pope to assist her throughout. After some abortive attempts to found a reformed community in Picardy, and temporary lodgings the houses of noble supporters in the Franche-Comté (in the castle of La Roche) and Savoie (in the castle of Blanche de Genève), Colette and Henri were able to establish the first reformed house of Poor Clares in Besançon (1408). Thereafter, more houses would follow. Subsequent minister generals of the Franciscan order (Anthony of Massa and Guillaume de Casale), gave Henri the privilege to act as general visitator of the Coletan convents and to act as general vicar of the male Coletan houses in service of the Coletan sisters. After 1429, when Henri’s health deteriorated, he obtained the assistence of Pierre de Vaux. Henri died on 23 February 1439 in the Besançon monastery.

Henri wrote many letters and a range of spiritual treatises for the Coletan sisters, as well as a guide/rule for the friars Coletans who were to assist the female Poor Clares Coletans…. In the past, several spiritual writings of Hugo de Balma and Jacob of Milan have been attributed erroneously to Henri as well [notably Hugo de Balma’s De Triplici Via ad Sapientiam, Jacob of Milan’s Stimulus Amoris, and the Liber Soliloquiorum ad Impetrandam Gratiam et Lacrymas. Cf. AFH 50 (1957), 284.]

After Henri’s death (Besançon, 1439), Colette of Corbie decided to have him buried in the chapter of the female convent of Besançon. Not only to have his bodily remains close to the sisters, but also to prevent a noisy and troublesome cult. She feared that, when his body would be buried in the church, his renown and the miracles on his grave would attract too many people and would interfere with the religious life of the nuns.

manuscripts/editions