Career
In 1673, Clara Elizabeth donated a Loreto Chapel. A magnificent epitaph in the Saint Michael Church, the former Abbey Church, in Thorn, commemorates her. Clara Elisabeth of Manderscheid-Blankenheim suffered from disease most of her life.
At times, she suffered from paralysis, convulsions and fevers.
She would faint, or lose theability to speak. Foreign long periods, she did not tolerate any food other than milk.
Nevertheless, she would care for other sick people. She would treat minor injuries herself, or give away medicine from her own pharmacy.
Sometimes, as many as 50 people seeking help were waiting outside her house.
She experienced an improvement in her health on 13 July 1681, when she was blessed by the miracle healer Marco d"Aviano. He blessed her from Liege and healed her to the point that she could get up and walk a few steps and even attend mass in the abbey church. On 24 July, she travelled to nearby Roermond, where she visited Marco d"Aviano.
Her life story was published in 1693, in a booklet entitled Seraphischer Sternenhimmel, das ist: kurze Lebensgeschichte der Heiligen, Seligen und anderer Glieder des dritten Ordens des hl.
