Book Title: Nette Afbeeldingen der eygene dragten van alle geestelijke vrouwen en nonnenorders; Nevens een korte Aantekening van haar begin, voortgang en bevestiging. ... / Adrien Schoonenbeek.

Author: Schoonebeek, Adriaan, ca. 1660-1714

Image Title: Colettine Poor Clares

Description: This etched print features a nun of the Colettine Poor Clares, a branch of the Poor Clares founded by the Roman Catholic saint Colette of Corbie, who was canonized in 1807. She established seventeen convents in her lifetime. Today the Colettine Sisters are found mainly in France. Colette prescribed extreme poverty, discalcement, and the observance of perpetual fasting and abstinence. The Colettines follow their own Constitutions, which were sanctioned in 1434 by the then-Minister General of the friars, William of Casale, and approved in 1448 by Pope Pius II (1405 – 1464 CE), and in 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV (1414 – 1484 CE).

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