rted the chapter of secular canons of his cathedral into a regular
community, in which he was imitated by many other churches. He composed
for his regular canons a rule, consisting of thirty-four articles. In
the first he lays down humility for the foundation of all the rest.[1]
He obliged the canons to confess at least twice a year to the bishop,
before the beginning of Advent and Lent.[2] But these churches, even
that of Metz, have again secularized themselves. The saint built and
endowed the monasteries of St. Peter, that of Gorze, and a third in the
diocese of Worms, called Lorsh or Laurisham. He died on the 6th of
March. in 766, and was buried at Gorze, to which by his will, which is
still extant, he demised several estates. He is named in the French,
German, and Belgic Martyrologies.

* * * * *

The zeal of St. Chrodegang in restoring the primitive and apostolic
spirit in the clergy, particularly their fervor and devotion in the
ministry of the altar, is the best proof of his ardor to advance the
divine honor. To pay to Almighty God the public homage of praise and
love, in the name of the whole church, is a function truly angelical.
Those, who by the divine appointment are honored with this sublime
charge, resemble those glorious heavenly spirits who always assist
before the throne of God. What ought to be the sanctity of their lives!
how pure their affections, how perfectly disengaged from all inordinate
attachments to creatures, particularly how free from the least filth of
avarice, and every other vice! All Christians have a part in this
heavenly function.

Footnotes:
1. Ch. 14.
2. See the other regulations abridged in Fleury, &c., the entire rule
published genuine in {Le Cointe Amaise} t. 5, and in the later
editions of the councils{}.

B. COLETTE, VIRGIN AND ABBESS.

From her life, written by her confessor, Peter de Vaux. See Helyot,
Hist. des Ord. Relig. t. 7, p. 96. Miraeus and Barbaza, Vies des Saints
du Tiers Ordre de St. Francois, t. 2, p. 51.

A.D. 1447.

COLETTE BOILET, a carpenter's daughter, was born at Corbie, in Picardy,
in 1380. Her parents, out of devotion to St. Nicholas, gave her the name
of Colette, the diminutive of Nicholas. She was brought up in the love
of humiliations and austerities. Her desire to preserve her purity
without the least blemish made her avoid as much as possible all
company, even of persons of her own sex, unless it was so