クララは聖書には登場しない — そしてアッシジのクララはより容易な規則を拒んだ

Clara is not in the Bible. It is Latin for clear or bright, and its most famous bearer spent forty years refusing to be given an easier rule. What the name means From the Latin clarus — clear, bright, and by extension distinguished. The same root gives us clarity, declare and clarion. Clare, Chiara, Clarissa and Claire are the same name. It spread across Europe after the thirteenth century because of one woman. Is Clara in the Bible? No. Latin…