First, Colet criticizes the living style of the priests.

First, in regard to pride of life, Colet believes that priests of the day were more consumed by the honor and dignity one could receive by being a part of the priesthood.

Colet calls this a plague that has overtaken many priests and blinded many.

Colet states that: “ every corruption, all the ruin of the Church, all the scandals of the world, come from the covetousness of priests ”.

" He wrote to Louise Colet in 1852: " No law could attack me, though I should attack everything.

In a letter addressed to me in 1888, Mr. Gladstone, whom I had asked in what sense he understood the existence of a spiritual continuity between the ancient Catholic Church and the existing Church of England, replied, In the Elizabethan interval, and before Anglicanism had a recognised existence as a form of thought, I should look for the spiritual continuity in men like Bernard Gilpin, as, before the Reformation, mainly in men like Colet.

" I cannot tell you, dear Colet, how I hurry on, with all sails set, to holy literature.

The Colet family motto is " Semper Erectus ", Latin for " Always Upstanding ".

Around 1508, having inherited his father's wealth, Colet formed his plan for the re-foundation of St Paul's School, which he completed in 1512, and endowed with estates of an annual value of £ 122 and upwards.

It represents his work, or as Colet said himself, he is “ speaking out of zeal, a man sorrowing for the ruin of the Church ”.

In his speech, Colet condemned war and prompted Christians to fight only for Christ.

Erasmus stated that Colet was a man for the ages and a true Christian.

Together with Lilye, Erasmus, and Wolsey, Colet produced materials forming the basis of the authorized Latin Grammar, used for centuries in the English schools.

In the introductory paragraph, Colet concludes by stating that his presence is due to the need for the Council to consider a Church reformation.

St Paul's School plaque LondonThe eldest son of Sir Henry Colet, a member of the Mercers ' Company and twice Lord Mayor of the City of London, he inherited a substantial fortune and used a great part of it for the endowment of his school, having no family of his own ; his 21 siblings all died in childhood and he was a celibate priest.

Colet distrusted the Church as a managing body for his school, declaring that he " found the least corruption " in married laymen.

The new site also includes St Paul's Preparatory School, or Colet Court, whose pupils account for roughly one half of the senior school's intake each year.

The only building which remained from the previous Water Board landowners became the music department for Colet Court.

In 1941 Ayres was sent to Colet Court, the junior school for St Paul's, in Hammersmith, where on her eleventh birthday she finally learnt to read.

There are four schools in the town ; The John Hampden School, named after politician and English Civil War participant John Hampden, a community infant school with approximately 275 pupils aged 4 – 7, Wendover Church of England Junior School, a voluntary controlled junior school with approximately 360 pupils aged 7 – 11, The John Colet School, named after the Renaissance humanist John Colet, is a community secondary school with approximately 1100 pupils aged 11 – 18, Wendover House School a school for boys aged 11 – 16 who have special educational needs.

The club currently shares the school fields of the John Colet School and a clubhouse is open each Saturday afternoon for either a first or a reserve team fixture.

Upon arrival in Paris, Colet began to submit her work for approval and publication and soon won a two-thousand-franc prize from the Académie française, the first of four prizes won from the Académie.

In many others, Flaubert gives lengthy appreciations and critical comments on the poems that Louise Colet sent to him for his judgment before offering them for publication.

* Find-A-Grave profile for Louise Colet

Erasmus likely portrayed Colet to show that one could be highly critical of the Church while still a loyal priest.

Colet disagrees with the creation of new laws ; instead he thinks that the old laws must simply be enforced.

In 2010 he executed a memorial to Dean Colet founder of St Paul's School, London ; which can be see in St Paul's Cathedral.

His arms were Sable on a chevron Argent between three Hinds trippant Argent three Annulets Sable, and they were originally used by his great-grandfather, Richard Colet.

On his return to Oxford, full of the learning and imbued with the spirit of the Italian Renaissance, he formed one of the brilliant circle of Oxford scholars, including John Colet, William Grocyn and William Latimer, who are mentioned in the letters of Erasmus.

While Colet is not as well known a Christian humanist as Erasmus, his writings are reflective of Christian humanism.

Colet believes several things are important: a good, pure, and holy life, approved morals, moderate knowledge of the Scriptures, knowledge of the Sacraments, the fear of God and love of the heavenly life.

In 2002, the school obtained its own grant of arms from the College of Arms consisting of the arms of Dean Colet surrounded by a gold bordure, upon which the crossed swords of the Dean of St Paul's are repeated.

The two main department stores are Colet ( next to Kokura Station ) and Izutsuya ( next to the Murasaki River and opposite Riverwalk Kitakyūshū ).

Over the succeeding decades many literary figures turned a hand to grammar in English: Alexander Gill, Ben Jonson, Joshua Poole, John Wallis, Jeremiah Wharton, James Howell, Thomas Lye, Christopher Cooper, William Lily, John Colet and so on, all leading to the massive dictionary of Samuel Johnson.

While at St. Paul ’ s between 1505 and 1519, Colet used his preaching, administration, scriptural exegesis and education towards Church reform.

Furthermore, Colet stated that he came “… here today, fathers, to admonish you with all your minds to deliberate, in this your Council, concerning the reformation of the Church ”.

Later critics went on view Colet as Protestant-like, though historical revisionists believe that Colet was a reform preacher that wanted to improve the quality of the Church.

Colet was an outspoken critic of the powerful and worldly Church of his day, a friend of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More.

These reached their peak in the Renaissance and Wolfe particularly draws inspiration from the Renaissance humanists that supported the Catholic Church, such as Erasmus, Thomas More, Johann Reuchlin and John Colet.

In 1499, while in England, Erasmus was particularly impressed by the Bible teaching of John Colet who pursued a style more akin to the church fathers than the Scholastics.

* St Paul's School is founded by John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

John Colet, William Grocyn, William Lilye and other eminent scholars were his intimate friends, and he was esteemed by a still wider circle of literary correspondents in all parts of Europe.

Many opinions regarding Colet emerged due to this sermon, in addition to the biographical information described by Erasmus.

Frontispiece and titlepage of " The Life of Dr John Colet ", Dean of St Paul's " by Samuel Knight, 1724.

To this day, Colet's achievement is celebrated by St Paul's School, St Paul's Girls ' School and Colet Court on John Colet Day at St Paul's Cathedral ( having begun in 2003 ).

This Brevissima Institutio, a sketch by Colet, corrected by Erasmus and worked upon by Lily, contains two portions the author of which is indisputably Lily.

St Paul's School is a boys ' independent school, founded in 1509 by John Colet, located on a site in the London suburb of Barnes.

By the 16th century however, it had declined, and in 1509, a new school was founded by John Colet, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, on a plot of land to the north of the Cathedral.

It was bought and renovated by Stanley Garton, but the Second World War intervened, and it became the temporary home of 80 boys from Colet Court prep school, evacuated from Hammersmith.

In 1551, her works were " corrected " by the French translator Claude Colet, who eliminated many of her Italian and Latin borrow words.