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- Genevieve (French: Sainte Geneviève; Latin: Genovefa; also called Genovefa and Genofeva; c. 419/422 AD – 502/512 AD) was a consecrated virgin, and is the patron saint of Paris in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Her feast day is on 3 January.
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History of Paris - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Prehistory. The Parisii and the Roman conquest (250–52 BC) Roman Lutetia (52 BC–486 AD) From Clovis to the Capetian kings (6th–11th centuries) Middle Ages (12th–15th centuries) 16th century. 17th century. 18th century. French Revolution (1789–1799) Under Napoleon I (1800–1815)
The football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris. The 81,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros.
- Paris
- France
- 28–131 m (92–430 ft), (avg. 78 m or 256 ft)
- Île-de-France
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Early life
Genevieve was born c.419 or 422 in Nanterre, France, a small village almost seven kilometers (4.3 mi) west of Paris, to Severus and Gerontia, who were of German or possibly Frankish origins. A candle is one of her most common attributes. Sometimes she is depicted with the devil, who is said to have blown out her candle when she prayed at night. Genevieve appears in the Martyrology of Jerome; her vita appeared many centuries after her death, although hagiographer Donald Attwater states that he...
Later life and death
After her parents' deaths, Genevieve went to live with her godmother in Paris, devoting herself to prayer and charitable works. She became severely paralysed and almost died; after she recovered, she reported that she had seen visions of heaven. In Paris, she became admired for her piety and devotion to works of charity, and practiced fasting, "severe corporal austerities", and the mortification of the flesh, which included abstaining from meat and breaking her fast only twice a week. She fas...
Miracles
According to McNamara, during the Franks' many sieges of Paris, Genevieve had to convince them "that she and her God were allies worth having". McNamara also states that Genevieve "aligned with the poor and the conquered against unharnessed secular power". McNamara believes, however, that her status as a woman with no official status or political power "rendered her innocuous in the context of secular power" and reports that Genevieve inspired the Franks to respect the Gallic saints and provi...
By the 14th century, Genevieve was recognized as the patron saint and a protector of Paris, which Sluhovsky finds remarkable because she was a woman. Sluhovsky called Genevieve's cult, which lasted over 1,000 years, "a success story" and said, "It was a process of expanding patronage—from monastery to neighborhood, to city, to the entire kingdom. T...
Attwater, Donald; John, Catherine Rachel (1993). The Penguin Dictionary of Saints (3 ed.). New York: Penguin. pp. 151–152. ISBN 0-14-051312-4. Retrieved 11 October 2023."Genovefa (423-502)". Sainted Women of the Dark Ages. Edited and translated from Acta Sanctorumby McNamara, Jo Ann; Halborg, John E. Durham; with Whatley, E. Gordon, England: Duke University Press....Sluhovsky, Moshe (1998). Patroness of Paris: Rituals of Devotion in Early Modern France. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 90-04-10851-3.Williams, Hannah (September 2016). "Saint Geneviève's Miracles: Art and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Paris". French History. 30 (3): 322–353. doi:10.1093/fh/crv076.- lit candle, bread, keys, herd, cattle
- Pre-congregation
- 3 January
This is a timeline of French history, comprising important legal changes and political events in France and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of France. See also the list of Frankish kings, French monarchs, and presidents of France.
YearDateEvent18019 FebruaryWar of the Second Coalition: The Treaty ...180115 JulyThe Concordat of 1801 was signed between ...18023 FebruarySaint-Domingue expedition: French Army ...180225 MarchWar of the Second Coalition: The Treaty ...History of the Panthéon. In the heart of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, discover the history of the church Sainte-Geneviève, become with the liking of the political upheavals, the Panthéon, temple of the great men and great women of the nation.
1. The original settlement in Paris dates back to 8000 BC. Archeologists have found the oldest hunter-gatherer settlement in Paris dating back to 8000 BC, in the 15th arrondissement on the Left Bank. There are also traces of other settlements from 4000 BC that are today on display at the Carnavalet Museum in Paris. 2.
