Saint Colette

Colette of Corbie (* as Nicolette Boilet [ also: Boellet or Boylet ] January 13, 1381 in Corbie, † March 6, 1447 in Ghent ) was a French abbess and the renaissance of the Order of Poor Clares, by the Colettinischen Poor Clares (Latin: Ordo Sanctae Clarae reformationis from Coleta - OSCCol - German: . poor poor Clares ) founded. She is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church beatified on January 23, 1740 by Pope Clement XII. and canonized by Pope Pius VII on 24 May, 1807. church feast day is your day of their death, March 6. It is regarded as a saint of expectant mothers and sick children.

Life

Colette grew up in modest circumstances - her father Robert Boellet was employed as a carpenter at the nearby Benedictine monastery. Contemporary biographers claim that the mother was already 60 years old when she got her child to St. Nicholas after prayers.

After the death of her parents in 1399, she was a Beguine, then Benedictine nun and eventually she joined the Order of Poor Clares. There she was dismayed by the lack of discipline from the cooling of the monastic ideals and the softening of the strict commandment poverty, which were usually of Saint Clare, the foundress, committed. She received from the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII. permission to reform the monasteries of the Order and its reincorporation with the aim of the original hardness of the monastic rules to restore. After trying to apply the reform in the monastery of Baume- les -Messieurs, she decided in 1410 to found a new monastery at Besançon after their reform rules. In 1447, she lived in the convent of Ghent, one of seventeen monasteries, which she had founded, where she died.