133 Paris 19th arrondissement, Saint Claire of Assisi : a cheering P.S.

 Chiara Offreduccio di Favarone was born in July of 1194 in Assisi in Italy, and so has had a long career as saint. She founded the religious order known as the Poor Clares. This was an order of women dedicated to poverty and prayer, an activity at the time very much male dominated. In particular after her death, the Poor Clares spread around Europe, opening monasteries here and there, reaching Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1286, and the United States in the late 1870s.

This is a modern church from the late 1950s, just near the music museum. I visited it when my daughter was singing in a choral thingy there. Very cheerful Stations of the Cross with gold backgrounds. Also, at the end of the fourteen Stations of the Cross detailing moments from the last few, sad days of Jesus’s life, there is a fifteenth, showing Jesus rising from the dead. This cheering PS to your Stations of the Cross was authorized by the pope a few decades ago, in the year 2000, but is actually very rarely seen  in churches.