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Saint Colette of Corbie, Patron Saint of Childless Couples Trying to Conceive

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Saint Colette is a patron saint for couples who want to conceive and for pregnant women. Although for many saints it isn’t exactly clear why they became patron saints of infertility or how they are related to fertility at all- for Saint Colette it is clear. This Saint was both a miracle child herself, and performed miracles related to babies while still alive.

I actually didn’t know that much about Saint Collette until I started researching, and I have to say, she is truly special!  

Check out my post here on all the different patron saints of infertility, fertility, preventing miscarriage and couples trying to conceive!

Saint Colette, Patron Saint of Childless Couples Trying to Conceive    #fertility #infertility #catholicsaints #patronsaint

Table of Contents

  • Saint Colette of Corbie
    • Saint Colette’s Miracles
    • Working with Saint Colette for Fertility
    • Original Prayer to Saint Colette for Trying to Conceive a Baby
    • Traditional Prayers to Saint Colette
      • Dedication Prayer of St. Colette
      • Prayer to St. Colette
      • Group Prayer to St. Colette
      • Chaplet of Saint Colette
    • Leave a prayer to Saint Colette in the comments, if you would like!

Saint Colette of Corbie

She 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 (another one of my favorite saints!), and so they named her Nicollette, which got shortened to Collette. 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 different orders of sister (nuns). First, the Beguine, and then the Benedictine. Finally she became a Franciscan. 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.

She became head of the order and turned it into a very strict group- they lived in extreme poverty, went barefoot, and practiced perpetual fasting. Intense!! She was known for her visions, and she helped heal a papal schism and founded seventeen convents! Wow!

Saint Colette’s Miracles

A local man’s wife had just given birth to a stillborn baby, and, grieving, he wrapped the baby and took it to the priest for baptism. The priest refused to baptise a dead baby and sent him to the nuns. He arrived at St. Colette’s house. She took off her veil and wrapped it around the baby, and told him to take the baby back to the priest. When he got the baby to the priest, the baby was crying and alive! The priest baptised the baby. This is the reason she is the second reason she is the patron saint of those who want to conceive a baby, and why she is a patron saint of expectant mothers.

Colette was on her way to see the Pope, when she arrived at the home of a friend, whose wife was in labor with their third daughter, and was in grave danger. Colette prayed in the chapel and the mother successfully delivered and the family felt the life was owed to Colette’s prayers. Later on that baby joined as a sister in Colette’s convent and became her biographer. This is another reason she is known as a patron saint of expectant mothers.


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Working with Saint Colette for Fertility

  • Pray with her. Use the traditional prayers below, or the prayer I have authored, to grow in your closeness with her. Or use your own prayers. Ask her to intercede on your behalf to Jesus. If you are nervous to pray your own words, check out my post on Asking God for a Miracle.
  • Think of the miracle of her birth, and the endless possibilities for miracles when we work with God.
  • Read more about her. This 2010 book is available affordably on Kindle or in a very pricey hardcover – Colette of Corbie: Learning and Holiness.
  • Wear a medal in her honor. Everytime you touch it, see it, or think of it, say a prayer to her!
  • Grab a prayer card or St. Colette artwork from an artist on Etsy! Some of my favorite are below.
  • Tell people about her. Share her story. There is a special grace given when you tell others about Saints that are special to you.
  • Celebrate her feast day- March 6th- with prayer and perhaps a light fast in honor of her faith journey. Consider starting a novena to her 9 days prior, on February 26 (for non-leap years), or February 27 (for leap years).

Original Prayer to Saint Colette for Trying to Conceive a Baby

Saint Colette, Miracle Child, and Daughter of the Church.

You spent your life in love and dedication to the Cross.

You were a miracle worker in life, and you are a miracle worker in heaven.

You know my desire to conceive a healthy baby and deliver them successfully that they may have a long and happy life.

Please intercede on my behalf to Jesus Christ. Please help me to conceive a miracle baby and have a blessed pregnancy and delivery.

And, with the grace of God, please be with me to grant me dedication I need to remain constant and unswerving in my faith while I wait patiently to meet my baby.

Amen.

Prayer to St. Colette for a miracle baby during infertility. #ttc #fertility #patronsaint #catholicsaints

Traditional Prayers to Saint Colette

Dedication Prayer of St. Colette

O blessed Jesus,
I dedicate myself to thee
in health, in illness, in all my deeds,
so that I may never work henceforth except for thy glory,
for the salvation of souls, and for that which thou hast chosen for me.
From this moment on, dearest Lord,
there is nothing which I am not prepared
to undertake for love of thee.
Amen.

Prayer to St. Colette

O glorious ST. COLETTE,
I beseech you
through the burning love which
inflamed your heart for Jesus
in the Most Blessed Sacrament
through the marvelous graces
with which He enriched you and
the loving compassion you did bear
to Him in His bitter sufferings,
obtain from Him for me
my requests which I hope
to receive through your
powerful intercession.
Amen!

Group Prayer to St. Colette

O Lord Jesus Christ,
who have enriched Your spouse,
SAINT COLETTE,
with heavenly graces,
grant, we beseech You,
that we may imitate her virtues
here on earth,
and with her enjoy the eternal happiness of heaven.
Amen.

Chaplet of Saint Colette

Blessed be the hour 
in which our Lord Jesus Christ, 
God and Man was born. 
Blessed be the Holy Spirit 
by whom he was conceived. 
Blessed be the glorious Virgin Mary 
of whom the Incarnate Word was born.

May the Lord hear our prayers 
through the intercession 
of the glorious Virgin Mary 
and in memory 
of that most sacred hour 
in which the Incarnate Word was born, 
that all our desires may be accomplished 
for your glory and our salvation.

O good Jesus! 
O Jesus our Redeemer, 
do not abandon us as our sins deserve,
but hear our humble prayer 
and grant what we ask 
through the intercession 
of the most blessed Virgin Mary 
and for the glory of your Holy name. 
Amen.

As God pleases 
As God wills  
              (always prayed ten times)

Let us praise the Father in his mercy 
and the Son by his passion 
and the Holy Spirit 
the fountain of peace and sweetness and love. 
Amen, amen without recall!

Copyright © Ty Mam Duw Poor Clare Colettine Community 2000 – 2009.

Leave a prayer to Saint Colette in the comments, if you would like!

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    1. Flora

      November 11, 2019 at 3:21 pm

      I am Flora Gabriel married since 1995 but not able to conceive till now iam a Tanzania living in Kagera Region in Karagwe district. Please pray for me so that i conceive babies twins in Jesus name. African culture is difficult with no child i think you understand. Please Saint Coltte pray for me.

      Reply
      • Anna

        November 11, 2019 at 9:38 pm

        Flora, I am praying with you!!!

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      • Happiness

        November 22, 2019 at 6:20 am

        I’m praying for you too

        Reply
      • Shyla

        March 06, 2020 at 2:20 am

        Please pray for my daughter nishel she is sick. Having severe cough and digestion problems.

        Reply
      • Mary Mildred Igao

        March 21, 2020 at 10:50 am

        Hi! Im Mary, married for 7 years and trying to conceive for 5 years now.. we have fertility issues and are both trying to correct. doctors says we need IVF procedure but we are praying and hoping for a natural conception. St. Colette, pray for us..

        Reply
        • Donna

          February 27, 2022 at 11:37 am

          Please assist me in praying for my daughter to conceive a child

          Reply
    2. Genevieve

      January 11, 2020 at 2:18 pm

      Anna, thank you for the article (but please correct the errors in it; there are random incorrect/extra words and you spelled Colette as Collette in one place, leading to confusion).
      My brand-new granddaughter is named Colette after St. Colette of Corbie!

      Reply
    3. Aida

      March 09, 2020 at 10:43 pm

      Please pray for my daughter, Janel and her husband, Tanner. They have been trying to get pregnant for 4 years. Saint Colette please, they would make great parents.

      Reply
    4. Kristen

      March 10, 2020 at 2:00 pm

      When I was 15 I chose St. Colette as my Confirmation saint. I went to Catholic school my whole life but never felt very religious. I didn’t know who to choose and Confirmation was “mandatory,” and my high school life was very busy. So I randomly picked St. Colette because I thought it sounded nice with my middle name, Nicole. Anyways, fast forward 15 years… I suffered from infertility and two very traumatic losses before we finally decided to use a surrogate. Now I am looking at my healthy baby twins and researching St. Colette for some reason. I cannot believe she is the patron saint of infertility!! All these years later and my Confirmation saint that I randomly chose was the one I should have prayed to! Now I am praying to her so that I can conceive again and have a full term, healthy pregnancy this time.

      Reply
    5. Dee

      March 17, 2020 at 12:54 am

      St. Colette, please ask the dear Lord to make my daughter fertile. She & her husband have been married for over 15 years and have no children. They would make great parents! My daughter is the most loving, kind & helpful woman. She always thinks of others and would be such a good mother. Please allow her to bring another holy soul to God. Her husband is hard-working and a good provider. If she can only conceive once, twins would be nice!! Please make them parents and us grandparents (we have none). Thank you

      Reply
    6. Josephine tarriela

      April 07, 2020 at 3:39 pm

      st. colette I am married for 3 yrs. and 3yrs for being boyfriend and girlfriend we are both capable for having a baby and both a loving and kind person it’s been 6yrs still waiting to conceived a baby,were both hard workers for the future of our children please gave us the chance to have a happy family by having a child…

      Reply
    7. Mary

      May 04, 2020 at 8:48 am

      Please pray that we have the gift of a child.

      Reply
    8. Jen

      June 23, 2020 at 8:47 pm

      St. Colette please help us to receive our miracle baby.

      Reply
      • Anna

        July 03, 2020 at 3:47 pm

        amen!

        Reply
        • Roxanne

          November 26, 2022 at 3:53 am

          Dear St. Colette,

          I humbly ask to pray for me and those who are struggling with conceiving and having a miracle child. My husband and I are still waiting for that miracle to happen to bless us with healthy, God fearing bundle of joy in God’s perfect time . Pls. St. Colette hear my prayers and intercede with me in this prayer. I ask these in Jesus’s name.
          Amen!

          Reply
    9. Diane

      June 24, 2020 at 8:48 pm

      Prayers for a miracle baby and healthy pregnancy.
      Amen

      Reply
      • Anna

        July 03, 2020 at 3:46 pm

        amen

        Reply
        • Emma

          February 27, 2023 at 3:53 pm

          Please pray for me and my husband too to conceive, healthy pregnancy and safe delivery. Amen. Thank you and God bless. 🙏

          Reply
    10. Sneh

      July 20, 2020 at 5:28 pm

      I have been praying for my daughter and her husband to receive the gift of a baby. She did one IVF which she lost the pregnancy at 5 weeks. The sack didn’t form. I have been praying to St. Gianna, St. Rita, St. Majella, and St. Anne. Now she wants to start the next IVF. She is already very demoralized and lost her faith. As I want to start novenas today, I just stumbled over St. Colette’s Novena.
      I pray for my daughter to recieve the gift of healthy happy joyous full term baby. And I will tell people about St Colette.
      Please dear St Colette also build faith of my daughter. Amen. Intercede for her and for all others who are looking for the fruit of the womb.

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      • Angela

        March 02, 2023 at 12:36 am

        Dear Sneh, I am praying that your daughter will not attempt IVF again but be totally submitted to God’s Holy Will. IVF involves the killing of tiny human beings loved by God. I think also she has to be prepared to dispose of these small persons. Does she know about Naprotechnology, a moral means without breaking God’s commands. It will depend where she lives but she can search for a link. May God bless all your family.

        Reply
    11. Priscella

      September 14, 2020 at 5:12 pm

      Please pray for me and my husband to conceive trying with 2 years and still no sign , thank you.

      Reply
    12. Elizabeth Ann

      September 30, 2020 at 7:12 am

      Dearest St Colette I pray hard and beg you to bless my daughter and her partner with a baby. This is their final round of heartbreaking of IVF as they can no longer afford more treatment. My daughter is al,OST 42 and running out of time, biologically, with poor egg quality. She is desperate to be a mummy and they would make the most loving and kind parents. Please, please help her succeed this time. God Bless.

      Reply
    13. Virginie

      October 08, 2020 at 12:22 am

      I just found out about st colette , after 3 miscarriages , and both me and my husband treating to conceive, it seem we both have some fertility issues. This year we were ready to see a dr and start a treatment, but the corona virus outbreak, stop our plans. We are praying for next year january to start trying again. I won’t lie, sometime i lost hope. Something i think too much , i think may be i love kids so much , that why its my little cross to carry. But i know that i have to have faith and have to give it all to jesus as he has got plans for me . I will start praying to saint colette . With faith that my miracle baby will eventually be here 1day.

      Reply
    14. Mechelle

      October 09, 2020 at 10:30 am

      Please please help me pray for my sister Nancy that she may be able to conceive, bear and experience of having a child, she is already 39 years old and I am praying for her. God bless everyone!

      Oh St. Colette, pray for us.

      Reply
    15. Georgia marrillia

      October 20, 2020 at 10:04 pm

      Please pray for my daughter Rachael, she has had so much bad news. Pray for her that she may be able to conceive and best children, she needs a miracle !
      St Colette please be her friend and pray for her🙏

      Reply
    16. Nancy

      November 24, 2020 at 12:54 pm

      Thank you St Collette. I an a child born because my great Aunt, who prayed to you to have a child and had two, gave my mother her medal so she could do the same. Mom had miscarried at least eight times but soon she had my brother and then me. When we learned that my cousin who desperately wanted to be a mother was having difficulty, my mother pulled out the little necklace with St. Collette she’d gotten for herself and mailed it off with the stories and the prayers and now my cousin has two children as well. So thank you!

      Reply
    17. Lisa

      December 10, 2020 at 12:34 am

      Saint Colette, help my sister in law and brother to conceive, and have a happy, healthy pregnancy and delivery. They would make beautiful parents, and are wanting of this joy very badly.

      Reply
    18. Nita

      January 02, 2021 at 12:44 pm

      Saint Colette please pray for my husband and i. We have been trying to have children for 8 years. My husband has non obstructive azoospermia that hinder us to conceive. He got 2 major surgeries but still no result. Please pray for us so we’re blessed with miracle children. Thank you.

      Reply
    19. Augustina Adekoya

      February 06, 2021 at 4:31 pm

      My name is Augustina Adekoya. I am a catholic and a Nigeria. I have been married for yes no child. Pls saint Collette, intercede for me. I need my own children. Pray to God to deliver me from bareness r, miscarriage, fibroid, infection, painful and running stomach, bleeding, bad dreams, worm infestion. In Jesus name

      Reply
    20. Ann

      March 03, 2021 at 9:38 pm

      Please pray for my lovely niece. She and her husband have been trying to conceive for 5 years with no results. They will both make wonderful loving parents. Please pray that they are blessed with a baby of their own.

      Reply
    21. Kevina Tunim

      March 04, 2021 at 11:04 pm

      I am happily married for 4 years still waiting to conceive,please St Colette interceded for me in Jesus name

      Reply
    22. Diana Rendon

      March 15, 2021 at 8:58 am

      I’ve had pcos since I was a teenager, then at 30 I was at risk of premature ovarian failure thankfully it did not lead to that and was told I did not have ovarian failure but there is still infertility problems because I don’t regularly ovulate or we don’t even know If I can ovulate on my own.. Im turning 33.. my husband and I do want to have a baby badly..pls pray for us saint Colette.. pls bless us with a healthy child..❤

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    23. Brendah

      March 19, 2021 at 2:32 pm

      My name is Brendah from uganda.
      I have been married for 3Years n no child.
      Please St Collete the miracle child intercede for me so that i can have my own miracle children too, so happiness can be restored in my Home.
      Amen

      Reply
    24. Faith

      September 24, 2021 at 4:46 pm

      I have been married for years now without a child and am in desperate need of children. please St Colette the miracle child, please intercede for me so that I may carry my miracle set of twins (Nicholas and Nicolette) I will love my home to be blessed with children. pray for me St Colette. Amen

      Reply
    25. jeannette

      January 26, 2022 at 2:51 pm

      please st colette pray for lauren and bryan that lauren is able to conceive and they have a baby that they so desperately praying for

      Reply
    26. Beth

      February 17, 2022 at 9:03 am

      Colette, may you pray with us on our journey to parenthood. Help us to heal from the loss of our first unborn child. Help intercede our request of healing to allow for another child to be conceived. Please help guide our prayer to God for a healthy baby that we will be able to raise here on earth to know all your glory. Amen.

      Reply
    27. lilian

      July 15, 2022 at 5:38 am

      i have been married for 10 year i have tried to concieve for 5 year but all in vain dear st collette help me i concieve twins in jesus name

      Reply
      • Nancy

        August 16, 2022 at 12:57 am

        I pray to saint collette to help my daughter and her husband to conceive. Their embryos are not viable. Please help Kim and Allan, conceive and delivery a healthy child. In Jesus name I pray, amen. They have been trying for years. She’s 43 and is wanting children. Prayers to help these beautiful people.

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    28. Sely

      March 06, 2023 at 5:39 pm

      Please pray for my daughter which she had a miscarriage and is trying again.
      She is 40 please help her St . Collette I pray to you 🙏🏼🙏🏼

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