Colette of Corbie

Saint

Colette of Corbie

PCC
Saint Colette (detail of Saint Clare and Saint Colette, c. 1520, by the Master of Lourinhã; National Museum of Ancient Art, Portugal)
Virgin
BornNicole Boellet
13 January 1381
Corbie, County of Amiens, Duchy of Burgundy
Died6 March 1447(1447-03-06) (aged 66)
Ghent, County of Flanders, Duchy of Burgundy
Venerated inRoman Catholicism
Beatified23 January 1740 by Pope Clement XII
Canonized24 May 1807 by Pope Pius VII
Feast6 March

Colette of Corbie, PCC (13 January 1381 – 6 March 1447) was a French abbess and the foundress of the Colettine Poor Clares, a reform branch of the Order of Saint Clare, better known as the Poor Clares. She is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church. Due to a number of miraculous events claimed during her life, she is venerated as a patron saint of women seeking to conceive, expectant mothers, and sick children.