 After the family of St Clare tried to forcibly remove her from the Benedictine convent of San Paulo near Bastia, Bernard accompanied her the Benedictine nuns of the convent of .In 1213, he accompanied Francis on a missionary journey through Spain, but directed Bernard to remain behind at one point to tend to a poor invalid.When they met again a year later, the sick man had recovered, and Francis and Bernard continued through Aragon and Catalonia, Roussillon to Montpellier, and through Piedmont back to his chapel at Santa Maria dei Angeli in Assisi.