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[[Image:Gen_tombicon.jpg|thumb|Icon of Ss. Geneviève and [[Symeon the Stylite|Simeon the Stylite at her tomb in Paris]][[Image:Genevieve_sign.jpg|left|thumb|Inscription at the her tomb of St. Geneviève in Paris: "Consolation of exiles, you have manifested yourself to the Russian Orthodox emigrees. In all times, at your tomb, they venerate you. O Holy Geneviève, pray for us, Apostle of Unity."]]Our venerable mother '''Geneviève of Paris''' was a [[nun]] originally from Nanterre who lived in France circa 500 A.D. She is considered the [[patron saint ]] of the city of Paris, together with St. Denis. Her [[feast day]] is celebrated on [[January 3]].

==Fight for vocationLife==[[Image:Genevieve tomb.jpg|thumb|left|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.]][[Bishop ]] St . [[Germanus of Auxerre|Germain]] ([[July 31]]), going on his way to England to combat the [[heresy claiming ]] which claimed that one can be saved without [[baptism]], passed by Nanterre. He laid his hands on eight -year -old Geneviève, and asked her if she wanted to give herself to the Lord, ; she said yes. Her mother opposed the vocation, she Geneviève was angry with her mother, who when her mother opposed the vocation. Her mother then went blind, but was healed when she Geneviève forgave her.

==Ascetism==St. Geneviève is associated with many miraculous events. When old Attila the Hun approached, she ate only bread with milk upbraided the cowardly men who wanted to leave town: they remained in Paris, and only sundays and thursdaysAttila's barbarians turned away. St. [[Symeon the Stylite]] sent her a letter after seeing her in a vision. St. The milk was added Geneviève also worked [[exorcism]]s using [[Chrism|holy oil]] blessed by insistance of the bishopsbishop.

==St Symon When old, she ate only bread with milk, and only on Sundays and Thursdays. The milk was added by insistence of the Stylite==Sent her a letter after seeing her in a visionbishops.

==Saving ParisSource==When Attila [[Image:Genevieve_sign.jpg|thumb|Inscription at the Hun approachedtomb of St. Geneviève in Paris: "Consolation of exiles, she upbraided you have manifested yourself to the cowardly men who wanted to leave town: Russian Orthodox émigrés. In all times, at your tomb, they stayedvenerate you. O Holy Geneviève, pray for us, [[Apostle]] of Unity."]]*''Vita Sanctae Genovefae'', and Attila did not come thereJan 3 in ''Acta Sanctorum'', by the [[w:Bollandist|Bollandists]].

==ExorcismsExternal links==She worked them using holy oil blessed by the bishop*[http://ocafs. (source for additions: Latin Vita Stae Genovefae, Jan 3 in Acta Sanctorum, by Bollandists, citing from memory) {{stub}}  oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=External Links=1&FSID=100015 Venerable Genevieve of Paris] ([[OCA]])