March 6
On this day the Catholic Church remembers
St. Colette of Corbie

St. Colette of Corbie

virgin, reformer of the Poor Clares · 1381 – 1447
Go from your country… to the land that I will show you.
— Gen 12:1

A carpenter's daughter who lived as a recluse in a small cell by a church. After visions of St. Francis she set out to renew the Order of Poor Clares and founded seventeen convents. God often calls those who think they are least prepared.

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