On this day in 1447, there occurred the death of St. Colette. Mother Maddalena wrote of her in The Princess of Poverty:
For five years lived as a Recluse in a small narrow cell, edifying all by her wonderful life of prayer and penance. It was here that God made known to her that it was His wish that she should re-establish and propagate the strict observance of the Original Rule of S. Clare... Being however, finally convinced that it was God's will, she left her retreat to present herself before the Sovereign Pontiff, Benedict XIII… By him she was received and professed in the Order of Poor Clares [and] appointed Reformer of the Order and Abbess General over all the Monasteries she should reform or establish. The indomitable zeal and perseverance in spite of the many hardships and oppositions she had to encounter, the marvelous success that crowned her efforts, the wonders and prodigies she performed, the heroic virtues that shone forth in her, are things impossible to be described in words. It has rightly been said that, in her, the glorious Virgin S. Clare seemed to have re-appeared on earth. At her death, which took place at Ghent, in Belgium, March 6th, 1447, she had personally established seventeen Monasteries of the new Reform, leaving to her spiritual daughters special constitutions or comments on the Rule of S. Clare, which were confirmed and approved by several Pontiffs and Councils of the Church.