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- History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information about Saint Germanus
- Fast, concise facts and information
- Date of Birth and Death
- Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Germanus
- Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
- Description / Title of the Saint : Bishop
Saint Germanus Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Germanus
The following provides fast and concise facts and information: - Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Germanus: May 28
- Description / Title of the Saint : Bishop
- Date of Birth: Saint Germanus was born c469
- Date of Death: Saint Germanus died 28th May, 576
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The Story and History of Saint Germanus
The story and history of Saint Germanus. Saint Germanus, the glory of the Church of France in the sixth century, was born in the territory of Autun, about the year 469. In his youth he was conspicuous for his fervor. Being ordained priest, he was made abbot of St. Symphorian's; he was favored at that time with the gifts of miracles and prophecy. It was his custom to watch the great part of the night in the church in prayer, whilst his monks slept. One night, in a dream, he thought a venerable old man presented him with the keys of the city of Paris, and said to him that God committed to his care the inhabitants of that city, that he should save them from perishing. Four years after this divine admonition, in 554, happening to be at Paris when that see became vacant on the demise of the Bishop Eusebius, he was exalted to the episcopal chair, though he endeavored by many tears to decline the charge. His promotion made no alteration in his mode of life. The same simplicity and frugality appeared in his dress, table, and furniture. His house was perpetually crowded with the poor and the afflicted, and he had always many beggars at his own table. God gave to his sermons a wonderful influence over the minds of all ranks of people; so that the face of the whole city was in a very short time quite changed. King Childebert, who till then had been an ambitious, worldly prince, was entirely converted by the sweetness and the powerful discourses of the Saint, and founded many religious institutions, and sent large sums of money to the good bishop, to be distributed among the indigent. In his old age St. Germanus lost nothing of that zeal and activity with which he had filled the great duties of his station in the vigor of his life; nor did the weakness to which his corporal austerities had reduced him make him abate anything in the mortifications of his penitential life, in which he redoubled his fervor as he approached nearer to the end of his course. By his zeal the remains of idolatry were extirpated in France. The Saint continued his labors for the conversion of sinners till he was called to receive the reward of them, on the 28th of May, 576, being eighty years old. Feast Day of Saint Germanus
The Feast Day of Saint Germanus is May 28. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven. |
Saint Germanus- Short, concise biography of Saint Germanus
- History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
- Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Germanus
- Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Germanus - May 28
- History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
- Date of Death: 28th May, 576
- Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Germanus
- Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
- Description / Title of the Saint : Bishop
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