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The Poor Clares in Galway have just published an updated 10th anniversary edition of their number 1 best-selling book Calm the Soul.

Galway city's newest pharmacy, Cleary's, celebrated it opening in Mary Street on Monday.

The Poor Clares monastery on Nuns’ Island was the location this week for the launch of a comprehensive book on the history of women in religious orders.

An estimated 8,500 people viewed the final profession of the newest member of the Poor Clares, Sr Clare Marie, whose ceremony was live streamed last weekend.

As always, in a time of crisis, people look to the Poor Clares to help with their prayers. In addition, in the current situation, it has struck people that this is a community of women who are living in a sort of self isolation – by choice. How do they cope with this and how are they coping now?

The Poor Clare nuns in Galway will tonight (Thursday) release a song inspired by a poem from their best-selling book ‘Calm the Soul’ which they brought out in 2012.

The exitement generated by the snow last week was not just confined to the delighted children who had days off school, but it also extended to the order of the Poor Clares on Nuns Island.

There is often debate about the definition of a profession or a vocation. To have a vocation for something is a sentence that is oft abused. In the main, a career or a profession is something that you have in order to support yourself and to contribute in some way to the good of the society. You don’t need to have an innate spiritualism to choose a career or a profession.

The exact origins of the Poor Clare Sisters in Galway are not easy to trace. We know there was a convent of Clares, if not Poor Clares, here before 1640, based on an inscription on a headstone which read “Here lieth the body of Elizabeth Lynch, the Foundress of the Order of St. Clare who died 14th December 1626”. James Hardiman describes another headstone inscribed thus: “Here lieth the body of R. Mother Maria Gabriel, alias Helen Martin, first Abbess and religious of the Poor Clares of Galway who died on 14 January aged 68 in religion for 40. Pray for her Soul.” This suggests the nuns were in Galway since 1632 when she entered the order.

If you’ve ever wondered about the significance of the little blue tiles over the doors of some of the older houses in Galway, then wonder no more as a new website launched by the Franciscans and Poor Clares will help shed some light.