Basilica di Santa Chiara

Construction of the church began under the direction of Filippo Campello, one of the foremost architects of the time.

Having remained, like the body of Francis himself, hidden for six centuries, Clare's tomb was found in 1850 after a prolonged search.

The flesh and clothing of the saint had been reduced to dust, but the skeleton was perfectly preserved.

Finally, on 29 September 1872, Clare's bones were transferred, with much pomp, by Archbishop Pecci (later Pope Leo XIII), to a shrine in the crypt of the Basilica of Saint Clare that had been erected to receive them.

The feast of her first translation is kept in the order on 3 October, and that of the finding of her body on 23 September.