March 6, St. Colette of Corbie, Virgin of the second Order. Colette Boilet was born in Corbie (France) in 1380. Her pious parents brought her up in the fear and love of God. She was raised up by divine …More
March 6, St. Colette of Corbie, Virgin of the second Order.
Colette Boilet was born in Corbie (France) in 1380. Her pious parents brought her up in the fear and love of God. She was raised up by divine Providence to reform the Order of St. Clare, which had fallen away from its ancient splendor during the 14th century. She accomplished her work, after overcoming unimaginable obstacles, and at the cost of great labour and hardship. She always went barefoot, without sandals, wearing patched clothes, and speaking only of poverty and of the cross. “What I fear most,” she said, “is to spend a day without suffering.” She was in direct communication with the popes, cardinals, prelates, crowned heads, and saints of her period, to whom she inspired great confidence and whose admiration she won. St. Colette was a Superior of her Order, an indefatigable apostle of wide and clear-sighted genius; she was a martyr in her patience, a healer by her miracles. What is most remarkable about this illustrious reformer is that despite her active life, she never gave up her interior life or the practice of hidden virtues. She founded seventeen convents for her Order, and reformed a great many others. After forty years of unceasing work, her soul departed on March 6, 1447. – (from) The Franciscan Supplement.
Colette Boilet was born in Corbie (France) in 1380. Her pious parents brought her up in the fear and love of God. She was raised up by divine Providence to reform the Order of St. Clare, which had fallen away from its ancient splendor during the 14th century. She accomplished her work, after overcoming unimaginable obstacles, and at the cost of great labour and hardship. She always went barefoot, without sandals, wearing patched clothes, and speaking only of poverty and of the cross. “What I fear most,” she said, “is to spend a day without suffering.” She was in direct communication with the popes, cardinals, prelates, crowned heads, and saints of her period, to whom she inspired great confidence and whose admiration she won. St. Colette was a Superior of her Order, an indefatigable apostle of wide and clear-sighted genius; she was a martyr in her patience, a healer by her miracles. What is most remarkable about this illustrious reformer is that despite her active life, she never gave up her interior life or the practice of hidden virtues. She founded seventeen convents for her Order, and reformed a great many others. After forty years of unceasing work, her soul departed on March 6, 1447. – (from) The Franciscan Supplement.