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Show St. Genevieve. St. Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris, was consecrated at the age of seven to the service of religion by St. Germanus, bishop of Auxerre, who chanced to pass through the village of Nanterre, where she lived, about four miles from Paris. She acquired a great reputation for sanctity. The church of St. Genevieve, completed in 1764, was named in her honor. During Dur-ing the revolutionary period it was withdrawn from the service of religion relig-ion and called the Pantheon, but was afterward restored in name and to ecclesiastical uses. |