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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

March 6

Born

January 13, 1381

Died

March 6, 1447

Canonized

24 May 1807 by Pope Pius VII

Beatified

1604 by Pope Clement VIII (grant of liturgical office)

Biography

Saint Colette of Corbie (1381–1447) was a French Franciscan abbess and the founder of the Colettine Poor Clares, a reform branch of the Order of Saint Clare. Born Nicolette Boilet in Corbie, Picardy, to a carpenter and his wife who were already advanced in years, she was orphaned at seventeen and entrusted to the care of a Benedictine abbot....

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