+++  ”1812  Bl. Giles Mary, a rope-maker who became a Franciscan brother at Naples and spent his life as monastery porter showing compassion to the poor and sick.  The more he gave away, the more help seemed to flow in.” – Augustine Kalberer, OSB, ‘Lives of the Saints: Daily Readings.’  ++  Father Kalberer has a longer piece today on the great mystic Saint Colette, a Poor Clare Abbess of huge significance, but her story, as fascinating as it is, is almost too grand to grasp in a short page-long reading.  She kept the Primitive Rule of Saint Clare, founded many new abbeys, and reformed many other lax ones.  Her influence is felt to this day in the world of the Poor Clares, 550 years or so later.  +++