St._Genevieve

St. Genevieve She devoted herself to works of charity and practiced severe corporal austerities, abstaining completely from flesh meat and breaking her fast only twice in the week. These mortification’s she continued for over thirty years, till her ecclesiastical superiors thought it their duty to make her diminish her austerities. Many of her neighbors, filled with jealousy and envy, accused Genevieve of being an impostor and a hypocrite. Like Blessed Joan of Arc, in later times, she had frequent communion with the other world, but her visions and prophecies were treated as frauds and deceits. Her enemies conspired to drown her; but, through the intervention of Germain of Auxerre, their animosity was finally overcome. The bishop of the city appointed her to look after the welfare of the virgins dedicated to God, and by her instruction and example she led them to a high degree of sanctity. In 451 Attila paris, genevieve, years, works, towards, through, over, merowig, later, herself, god, clovis, citizens, church, charity, austerities, year, world, within, welfare, week, visions, virgins, urged, unwonted, untouched, twice, turned, trust, treated, town, took, times, till, thought, thirty