Cover Page/Front Matter -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Citation -- Fruitful Frienship by Ramona Miller, OSF -- Clare of Assisi: Bringing Her Story to Light by Margaret Carney, OSF -- Clare and the Younger Macrina: Hagiography and Healing by Felicty Dorsett, OSF -- From Brother Francis to the Poor Sisters of San Damiano: What is left of their correspondence? by Jean-François Godet-Calogeras, Ph.D. -- The Body and the Text: the Community at San Damiano that Produced the Text known as The Form of Life of the Poor Sisters by Beth Lynn, O.S.C. -- Drink at this Sacred Banquet (4th Letter, 9-14) by Pacelli Millane, O.S.C. -- "Poverty, suffering and contempt" in the theology and practice of Angela of Foligno: problem or resource? by Diane Tomkinson, O.S.F. -- Female Companionship in Angela of Foligno's Liber: The Role of Angela's Socia ("Masazuola") by Joy A. Schroeder -- Angela of Foligno, Magistra Theologorum outside the Universities: An Example of Medieval Somatic Theology by Darleen Pryds -- Plantula Francisci, Plantula Mei: Margaret of Cortona and the Franciscan Order of Penitents by Alison More, Ph.D. -- Clare of Montefalco 1268 - 1308 I Bear in my Body the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Margaret Klotz, O.S.F. -- James of Milan and The Stimulus Amoris by Paul Lachance, O.F.M. -- Plunging into Mystery by Regis J. Armstrong, O.F.M. Cap . -- Studies on Clare and Francisc an Women: What is Ours To Do? by Ingrid Peterson, O.S.F.