Mary stands large above St. Clare who holds a monstrance (a monstrance is a receptacle that holds the consecrated host/bread of the Eucharist). A female queen is pictured on her left and on her right is a tonsured (shaved head) male saint and a male king. Mary, resplendent in her royal marian blue with a crown on her head, stands in a posture of blessing and protection over Clare, and her scale suggests more power and authority than the earthly king and queen pictured below her. The mirrored, balanced positions of the king and the queen might suggest that the male opposite of Clare is Francis. The Poor Clares, the Second Order of St. Francis, were founded by Francis and Clare in Assisi in the early thirteenth century.