Photo story: Song of creation

The Poor Clares of Arundel are releasing their second album, My peace I offer you, on 24 May. At the guts of the album, divided into seven songs, is “The Canticle of Creation” by St Francis of Assisi. The album follows Light for the World, of which greater than 80,000 copies were sold worldwide, and 60 million streams. It reached the No. 5 spot within the mainstream pop chart, in 2020, and stayed as No. 1 within the UK specialist classical chart for 19 weeks (News, 13 November 2020). Profits from the album shall be given to charity. The community comprises Sisters aged between 50 and 96, and of six nationalities