A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Genevieve
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GENEVIEVE, a Patron Saint at Paris, born at Nantes about 419,
Is said to have succoured the inhabitants of Paris during a terrible famine, by procuring many large vessels full of wheat, which she distributed among them. At that time nuns were not confined to monasteries, but lived in their own families—Genevieve was one of these. Miracles were attributed to her after her death.
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