학술논문

Educating to poverty: the Clares Monastery in Galatina
Document Type
article
Source
Rivista di Storia dell'Educazione, Vol 4, Iss 2 (2017)
Subject
History of education
LA5-2396
Language
English
Spanish; Castilian
French
Italian
Portuguese
ISSN
2532-2818
2384-8294
Abstract
This study of an old female monastic communities, present in Galatina from the early seventeenth century up to nineteenth century, it is proposed to certify as to inside of the flourishing monastery Capuchin Poor Clares, it has been able, for centuries, to educate young girls to a poor lifestyle, through fasting and corporal mortification, as well as through sacred reading and prayer, imitating and celebrating the Sequela Christi. Therefore, in spite of their name Clarisse, which immediately recalls Santa Chiara and her ideal of "absolute poverty", personal and community, will emerge as this privilegium both been married only under a strictly educational profile.