Life of Blessed Colette, Reformer of the Sisters of Saint Clare, bound manuscript
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-150528
Manuscript account of the life of Saint Colette (b.1381-1447), as related by the Abbot of Saint-Laurent (c.1750-1770). Full title in French: "La Vie de la bienheureuse Collette Reformatrice des Religieuses de Sainte Claire." Bound volume, 285 pages.
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Foundress of Colettine Poor Clares; b. Nicolette Boylet (or Boellet) at Calcye, near Corbie, Jan. 13, 1381;d. Ghent, March 6, 1447. Born in answer to her parents' prayer, she lived a life marked by the unusual. At age 21 she became a recluse, after three unsuccessful attempts at the religious life, and for several years lived in rigorous penance. During this time her mission to reform the Poor Clares was made clear to her. She sought permission from antipope Benedict XIII, at Avignon, who received her into the Second Order of St. Francis, dispensed her from a novitiate, and appointed her abbess general. In 1408, with the help of Bl. Henry de la Baume, she began the work of restoring the primitive Rule of St. Clare (1253), imposing absolute poverty and perpetual fast. Many existing convents of the Urbanist Clares were reformed and some 20 new ones established during her lifetime. In 1412 the Franciscan Conventuals in northern France and Belgium established a reformed branch called Coletans. Never numerous, they were suppressed in 1517. Iconography shows Colette as an abbess, barefooted, usually with a lamb at her feet. She was canonized in 1807.
Feast: March 6.
Source:
Laughlin, M. F. "Colette, Saint." New Catholic Encyclopedia. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Biography in Context. Web. 2 June 2015.
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