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Also known as

• Genovefa

Memorial

• 3 January
• 28 October (translation of relics)

Profile

When she was seven years old, Genevieve met Saint Germanus of Auxerre on his way to England. Germain befriended her because of her insistence on wanting to live her life for God, and prophesied her future sanctity. She took the veil at age 15. Prophesied invasions and disasters for Paris. Could read consciences and calm the possessed. When Paris was besieged by the Franks, she encouraged its defense, organized prayers for God‘s protection of the city, and led an expedition for food to relieve the siege. Caused a church to be built on the tomb of Saint Denis. In 1129, the procession of her relics through Paris is believed to have ended an epidemic.

Born

• 422 at Nanterre near Paris, France

Died

• 500 at Paris, France
• interred in the church of Saints Peter and Paul in Paris
• relics destroyed in 1871

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against plague
• against disasters
• against fever
• French security forces (chosen in 1962)
• Paris, France
• WACs
• Women’s Army Corps

Representation

• bread (from feeding the people)
• candle
• cattle
• girl restoring eyesight to her mother
• keys
• shepherdess holding a candle which the devil is trying to extinguish and angels are helping to protect
• shepherdess with a coin suspended around her neck

MLA Citation

• “Saint Genevieve“. CatholicSaints.Info. 10 February 2021. Web. 25 February 2021. <>