Genevieve of Paris
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Icon of Ss. Geneviève and Simeon the Stylite at her tomb in Paris
Life
A picture of her tomb, across from the Pantheon in Paris. Most of her relics were dumped into the Seine by the radical atheists of the French Revolution, but others were collected from churches around France to which they had already been distributed.
St. Geneviève is associated with many miraculous events. When Attila the Hun approached, she upbraided the cowardly men who wanted to leave town: they remained in Paris, and Attila's barbarians turned away. St. Symeon the Stylite sent her a letter after seeing her in a vision. St. Geneviève also worked exorcisms using holy oil blessed by the bishop.
When old, she ate only bread with milk, and only on Sundays and Thursdays. The milk was added by insistence of the bishops.
Source
Inscription at the tomb of St. Geneviève in Paris: "Consolation of exiles, you have manifested yourself to the Russian Orthodox émigrés. In all times, at your tomb, they venerate you. O Holy Geneviève, pray for us, Apostle of Unity."
- Vita Sanctae Genovefae, Jan 3 in Acta Sanctorum, by the Bollandists.
External links
- Venerable Genevieve of Paris (OCA)
- Saint Genevieve, Patron Saint of Paris
- St. Genevieve of Paris
- St. Genevieve (Genofeva)
- First Celebration of All Saints of the British Isles by Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
- Genevieve on Wikipedia
- Troparion and Kontakion (in French) to St. Geneviève on La France orthodoxe (archive)
- Life of St. Genevieve from The Golden Legend of William Caxton, 1483 (archive)