Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Colette

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Colette 2/7/2024

(13 January 1381 – 6 March 1447) was a Frenchabbess and the foundress of the Colettine Poor Clares, a reform branch of the Order of Saint Clare, better known as the Poor Clares.

St. Colette was born Nicole Boellet, in Corbie, France. Her father was a poor carpenter at the Benedictine Abbey of Corbie. Tradition tells us that her parents were without children, and after having prayed to St. Nicholas for help in having a child, their prayers were answered. Her mother Marguerite gave birth to a daughter, Nicole at the age of 60. 

her parents had grown old without having children, before praying to Saint Nicholas for help in having a child. Their prayers were answered when, at the age of 60, Marguerite gave birth to a daughter.

The little girl took great pleasure in prayer, in compassion for the poor, and in rigorous mortification, making of her soul and of her tender body a sacrifice to God. Up to her 14th year St Colette de Corbie remained unusually small in stature; the was a great grief got her father. St Colette begged God to console her father in this matter, and then she began to grow very rapidly to normal height.