Colette from Corbie

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Sculpture of Saint Colette between Albert (Somme) and Corbie

Colette von Corbie (* as Nicolette Boilet [also: Boellet or Boylet] January 13, 1381 in Corbie ; † March 6, 1447 in Ghent ) was a French abbess and renewer of the order of the Poor Clares by creating the Colettin Poor Clares ( Latin : Ordo Sanctae Clarae reformationis from Coleta - OSCCol. - German : Poor Clarisse). 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 May 24th, 1807. Her ecclesiastical feast day is the anniversary of her death, March 6th. She is seen as the patroness of expectant mothers and sick children.

Life

Colette grew up in simple 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 had her child after praying to St. Nicholas .

After the death of her parents in 1399, she became a Beguine , then a Benedictine, and finally she entered the Order of the Poor Clares. There she was dismayed by a lack of discipline, by the cooling of the monastic ideals and by the softening of the strict poverty law, which was usually laid down in the rule of St. Clare , the founder of the order. She received from the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII. permission to reform the monasteries of the order and to re-establish them with the aim of restoring the original rigor of the monastic rules. After trying to apply the reform in the monastery of Baume-les-Messieurs, in 1410 she decided to found a new monastery in Besançon according to her reform rules . In 1447 she stayed in the monastery of Ghent , one of seventeen monasteries that she founded where she died.

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  1. ↑ St. Colette website ( Memento of April 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ↑ Catholic Encyclopedia (English)
personal data
SURNAME Colette from Corbie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boellet, Nicolette; Boillet, Nicolette; Boylet, Colette; Coleta de Corbie; Colette de Corbie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French founder of the order, saint
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1381
PLACE OF BIRTH Corbie
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1447
Place of death Ghent