Today, March 6, we celebrate the feast of St. Colette. Saint Colette was born in 1381 in France as a miracle baby to parents who were in their sixties! Her parents prayed diligently to St. Nicholas for a miracle pregnancy ,and so they named her Nicollette, which got shortened to Colette. This is the first reason why she is a patron saint to couples wanting to conceive! She was known as a sweet, hard-working, quiet child. Her parents died when she was a teenager, and she gave her inheritance to the poor and joined to an order of sisters (nuns) When she was 21,she locked herself in a cell to spend her life in penance and prayer- but in 1406 ,she had a dream that she should reform the order of the Poor Clares. After four years as an anchoress, she left her cell( a tiny cell that had only one small window that looked into a church) and joined the Poor Clares, where she re-introduced the primitive Rule of St. Clare, with a particular emphasis on poverty. St. Colette went on to found 1...