Nun of Reform

Today's saint lived her adult life making the order she choice the best it could be.  It makes one think that we should do the same in our own lives.  Look to what is needed to make the best of what we are given even better and closer to what God desires.

St. Colette

Feast day: March 6
Birth: 1380
Death: 1447
France

Although she was raised in comfort by her parents, Colette would be orphaned by the time she was seventeen years old.

Colette soon distributed her inheritance to the poor and became a Franciscan tertiary.  She  lived at Corby as a solitary. She soon became well known for her holiness and spiritual wisdom, but left her cell in 1406 in response to a dream directing her to reform the Poor Clares.

Despite great opposition, she persisted in her efforts. She founded seventeen convents with the reformed rule, along with several older convents. She was known for her sanctity, ecstasies, and visions of the Passion.  She also prophesied her own death in her convent at Ghent, Belgium. A branch of the Poor Clares is still known as the Collettines.