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Detail of The Painting Saint Clare of Assisi And Saint Colette By The Master of Lourinhã C1520 The Painting In In The Nacional De Arte Antiga Lisboa Portugal The Image Was Uploaded By Rickmorais And
Detail of The Painting Saint Clare of Assisi And Saint Colette By The Master of Lourinhã C1520 The Painting In In The Nacional De Arte Antiga Lisboa Portugal The Image Was Uploaded By Rickmorais And

Saint Colette

Also known as: Coleta; Colette Boylet; Collette of Corbie; Nicholette Boilet; Nicolette

Saint
Post-Congregation

Feast Day

6 March (Roman Martyrology); 7 February (Franciscans, Capuchins)

Born

13 January 1381 at Corbie, Picardy, France as Nicolette Boilet, named in honor of Saint Nicholas of Myra

Died

6 March 1447 at Ghent, Belgium of natural causes; relics at the Monastère Sainte-Claire, Poligny, France

Canonized

24 May 1807 by Pope Pius VII

Beatified

1604 by Pope Clement VIII (grant of liturgical office); 23 January 1740 by Pope Clement XII (beatification)

Biography

Saint Colette of Corbie (1381–1447) was born in France to a carpenter whose parents were nearly sixty years old at her birth. Orphaned at seventeen, she was placed under the care of a Benedict

Patron Saint Of

Against eye disorders
against fever
against headaches
against infertility
against the death of parents
craftsmen
Poor Clares
servants
Corbie, France
Ghent, Belgium

Representations & Symbols

Birds
lamb
woman being carried to heaven by an angel
woman delivering a soul from purgatory
Poor Clare nun holding a crucifix and a hook
Poor Clare nun visited by Saint Anne, Saint Francis of Assisi, and/or Saint Clare of Assisi in a vision
Poor Clare nun walking on a stream
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