 It is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare ("Chiara d'Offreducci"), the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death.The 19th-century Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows was also born in Assisi.Around 1000 BC a wave of immigrants settled in the upper Tiber valley as far as the Adriatic Sea, and also in the neighborhood of Assisi.