Poor Clares - Connections With Television

Connections With Television

  • In 1958 Saint Clare was declared Patron Saint of television by the Catholic Church.
  • The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) is operated by the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in Alabama.
  • In June and July 2006 BBC Two broadcast a television series called The Convent, in which four women were admitted to a Poor Clare monastery in southern England, for a period of six weeks, to observe the life.

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