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The remains of St. Clare, were transferred from the nearby church of St. George to Saint Clare's Basilica, and placed under the main altar on 3 October 1260. As soon as the works for the final arrangement of the tomb of St. Francis in 1850 were finished, work began in the Basilica of St. Clare to bring his body to light. 

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On June 22, 1852, feast of the "Vow", the diocesan Bishop began the work on the future crypt which would house the body of St. Clare. The works lasted until September 1872. Today's structure is the result of a neo-Gothic reconstruction carried out in 1934. Enclosed in a reliquary-body, which lies on a rough wooden table inside a crystal and stone urn of Subasio, the mortal remains of Clare can be venerated.

In the middle of the original crypt there is a regular dodecagonal figure, which has the dual function of highlighting the tunnel, within which the simple travertine sarcophagus with the remains of Clare were found.

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