Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Sometimes we need a career change.

Doing the same job, working for the same boss every day for a number of years, can get

tiresome.

Especially if that boss doesn't have our best interests at heart.

We get burned out, and the job we've loved all that time no longer fulfills us the

way it used to.

Except Belgium's Sisters of the Order of Poor Claire did love their job.

They were nuns living simple, sheltered lives full of prayer and joy.

But when one of their own put that simple life in jeopardy, they jumped into action in

a way nobody ever expected.

The Poor Claire's, as they were sometimes called, were formed in 1212 by Claire of a

CC.

She had been born in Italy to a wealthy family, but gave it all up when she was 17 to follow

St. Francis and his teachings.

She became a nun and swore herself to a life of extreme poverty.

Claire was eventually joined by her mother and two sisters, along with several other rich

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