After having spent two years at Vevey, Colette went to Nozeroy, to the princess of Orange, and remained with her till 1430. Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, recalled Colette to Flanders, where she founded several houses, and glorified God by many miracles. In the memoirs of Oliver de la Marche, a Burgundian gentleman of this time, occurs the following notice of S. Colette; "En celui temps, régnoit une moult sainte et dévote femme, religieuse de Sainte-Claire, au pays de Bourgoigne, nommée soeur Colette. Cette femme allait par toute la chrétienté, menant moult sainte vie, et édifiant maisons et églises de la religion de Saint François et de Sainte Claire. Et ai été acertené, que, par son pourchas et par sa peine, elle avait édifié de son temps trois cent quatre-vingts églises." It would seem almost as if Colette had a natural love for mountains, so generally do we find her returning to them, and laying at their feet the foundations of her dearest homes. Perhaps the mystery of their blue-veined valleys, and the wondrous changes wrought by the sun and clouds on their sides, filled her with a sense of love and awe. But it was not from among the mountains that she was summoned away. The call to the everlasting hills came to her on the flats of Flanders, in the city of Ghent. There she died on March 6th, 1447, laying herself down to repose as gladly as the weary labourer in harvest time, who returns to his home and to sleep after a day of incessant toil. When the Emperor Joseph II. suppressed many religious houses in his dominions, in 1785, the Poor Clares of Ghent took up the body of S. Colette, and traversing France, laid it beneath the mountain shadows at Poligny. The holy relics were secreted at the time of the French Revolution, and on the return of tranquillity, they were placed in the parish church; but the Poor Clares having re-established themselves at Poligny, the bones of the saint have been restored to them. [Illustration: Decorative motif] March 7. SS. PERPETUA, FELICITAS, SATURUS, AND COMPANIONS, _MM. in Africa_, A.D. 203. S. EUBULUS, _M. at Cæsarea in Palestine_, A.D. 308. S. PAUL THE SIMPLE, _H. in the Thebaid_, _4th cent._ S. GAUDIOSUS, _B. of Brescia_, _circ._ A.D. 445. S. EASTERWIN, _Ab. of Wearmouth_, A.D. 785. (_See S. Benedict Biscop, Jan. 12th; p. 172._) S. THOMAS AQUINAS, _Doct., O.P., at Fossa Nuova_, A.D. 1274. SS. PERPETUA, FELICITAS, AND COMP., MM. (A.D. 203.)