Date: March, 6
Colette was the daughter of a carpenter named DeBoilet at Corby Abbey in Picardy, France. She was born on January 13, christened Nicolette, and called Colette. Orphaned at seventeen, she distributed her inheritance to the poor.
She became a Franciscan tertiary, and 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.
She received the Poor Clares habit from Peter de Luna, whom the French recognized as Pope under the name of Benedict XIII, with orders to reform the Order and appointing her Superior of all convents she reformed.
Despite great opposition, she persisted in her efforts. She founded seventeen convents with the reformed rule and reformed several older convents.
She was renowned for her sanctity, ecstacies, and visions of the Passion, and prophesied her own death in her convent at Ghent, Belgium. A branch of the Poor Clares is still known as the Collettines. She was canonized in 1807.
PRAYER
Saint Colette, your parents were very grateful to God for the gift of you, their daughter. They raised you to be a holy servant of God, Who had answered their prayers and blessed them so richly.
Pray for us, that we may always seek to be a holy servant of God, as you were. Pray that we may have the faith to ask God for that which we need and desire in our life. Through Jesus our Lord. Amen
Our Lady of Guadalupe 
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