Since it opened in 1934, the Franciscan Monastery of St. Clare has been a well-known landmark in Jamaica Plain. Nestled between the beautiful Arnold Arboretum and busy Arborway rotary, the handsome ...
The Franciscan Monastery of St. Clare has adorned the corner of Centre Street and the Arborway in Jamaica Plain for nearly 90 years, but the nuns who have called the building home for decades are ...
Nuns in the Franciscan Order of St. Clare live in isolation at a Belleville monastery, spending most of their time in prayer, never leaving to visit family, go shopping or even walk in the ...
The Poor Clare Monastery of Our Lady of Mercy in Belleville was constructed in 1989, four years after St. Henry’s Preparatory Seminary closed, near Frank Scott Parkway West and West Main Street.