St Francis wears the Franciscan habit and there is a bird at his feet, recalling his sermon to the birds; and above the shoulder of St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, is a heart pierced by arrows, a symbol derived from the saint’s autobiographical Confessions in which he describes his own heart having been pierced by the arrows of God’s love. At least three of the saints depicted on the side panels of the St Clare’s Triptich were included because they were the name saints of the joint founders of St Clare’s, the brothers William James and Francis Ecksley Reynolds