Born
422
Died
512
Nationality
Gallo-Roman
Events involving St. Genevieve (13)
422
ID: 5245
Birth of St. Genevieve at Nanterre - born to Frankish father Severus and Greek mother Gerontia
ID: 5245
429
ID: 5246
St. Germanus meets 7-year-old Genevieve - recognizes her sanctity, she consecrates herself to God, receives blessed coin
ID: 5246
435
ID: 5247
Genevieve moves to Paris after parents' death - begins having visions, faces skepticism until St. Germanus confirms her sanctity
ID: 5247
436
ID: 5248
Genevieve heals her mother's blindness - makes sign of cross with well water over mother's eyes, sight restored
ID: 5248
440
ID: 5249
Genevieve begins expelling demons - gains reputation for freeing possessed persons through prayer and fasting
ID: 5249
451
ID: 5250
Genevieve saves Paris from Attila - convinces Parisians not to flee, organizes prayer and fasting, Attila mysteriously bypasses Paris
ID: 5250
455
ID: 5251
Devil extinguishes Genevieve's candle on bridge - she prays, candle relights miraculously, becomes her iconographic symbol
ID: 5251
464
ID: 5252
Genevieve breaks Childeric's siege of Paris - leads flotilla up Seine to Troyes for grain, feeds starving city
ID: 5252
470
ID: 5253
Childeric shows reverence to Genevieve - pagan Frankish king respects holy woman, releases prisoners at her request
ID: 5253
475
ID: 5254
Genevieve initiates church over St. Denis's tomb - locates martyr's burial site through revelation, begins basilica construction
ID: 5254
493
ID: 5255
Genevieve influences Clovis through Queen Clotilde - helps persuade Frankish king toward Christianity before his conversion
ID: 5255
502
ID: 5256
Clovis begins church of Saints-Apostles - builds church at Genevieve's suggestion, will become her burial place
ID: 5256
512
ID: 5257
January 3, 512
Death of St. Genevieve at 89 - dies after 80 years serving Paris, buried in Saints-Apostles church, immediate veneration
ID: 5257