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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.
Colette was born in Corbie, a town in the Picardy region of France in January 1381 to an elderly couple. [1] She lost her parents in 1399 and, after a brief stint in a beguinage, in 1402 she received the religious habit of the Third Order of St. Francis and became a hermit, living in a hut near the parish church, under the spiritual direction of the abbot of the local Benedictine abbey.
[c] Another major interest is Saint Colette of Corbie (1381–1447). Her Two Lives of Saint Colette: With a Selection of Letters by, to, and about Colette (2022, Iter Press) presents translations of two medieval accounts of the life of Saint Colette of Corbie, a significant figure in the reform of the Franciscan orders during the 15th century ...
St. Colette School in Rolling Meadows - The student population from circa 2017 to 2020 declined by 97. In 2020 its budget deficit was $500,000. [77] St. Jane de Chantal School in Chicago’s Garfield Ridge neighborhood. - In the 2015-2016 school year, the school had 281 students.
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born on 28 January 1873 in the village of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye in the department of Yonne, Burgundy. [1] Her father, Captain Jules-Joseph Colette (1829–1905) was a war hero.
During World War I, the Opéra de Paris director Jacques Rouché asked Colette, whom he met at one of Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux's salons, to provide the text for a fairy ballet. Colette originally wrote the story under the title Divertissements pour ma fille. After Colette chose Ravel to set the text to music, a copy was sent to him in 1916 ...
The St Regis Longboat Key Resort’s top priority is to provide an over-the-top experience for guests, adding bespoke touches for each guest at every step of their stay. The hotel's natural resort ...
1381 – Colette of Corbie, French abbess and saint in the Catholic Church (d. 1447) [16] 1400 – Infante John, Constable of Portugal (d. 1442) 1477 – Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (d. 1527) 1505 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1571) 1562 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier (d. 1601)