Genevieve
Patron saint of Paris
- Fame55.3
- Momentum0.5
- Religious Figures rank#225
Source-basedFalling
- Fame55.3
- Momentum0.5
- Religious Figures rank#225
- Wikipedia15.7K
Lived 423–502, aged 79France
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Updated 2026-06-09
A fifth-century virgin who allegedly turned back Attila the Hun with prayer alone. Paris invoked her 153 times across nine centuries — drought, siege, plague — until the Revolution broke the spell.
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Born around 419 near Paris, Genevieve met two traveling bishops as a child and vowed herself to lifelong virginity. Miracles and healings clustered around her early; locals said she could change the weather. After her parents died she moved to Paris, where her piety drew both devotion and hatred — the city nearly killed her before one of those same bishops intervened. In 451 her prayers supposedly spared Paris from Attila's army, a "prayer marathon" that became her signature act. She spent her later years building: a basilica for Saint Denis in 475, another for Peter and Paul around 500. She d…
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