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Genevieve, the Glossary

Genevieve (Sainte Geneviève; Genovefa; also called Genovefa and Genofeva; 419/422 AD – 502/512 AD) was a consecrated virgin, and is the patron saint of Paris in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions.^[1]

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Female saints of medieval France
People from Nanterre
Women in war in France

Abbey of Saint Genevieve

The Abbey of Saint Genevieve (French: Abbaye Sainte-Geneviève) was a monastery in Paris.

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Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.

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Aignan of Orleans

Aignan or Agnan (Anianus) (358–453), seventh Bishop of Orléans, France, assisted Roman general Flavius Aetius in the defense of the city against Attila the Hun in 451. Genevieve and Aignan of Orleans are Gallo-Roman saints.

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Anne of Austria

Anne of Austria (Anne d'Autriche; Ana de Austria; born Ana María Mauricia; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was Queen of France from 1615 to 1643 by marriage to King Louis XIII.

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Antoine Godeau

Antoine Godeau (24 September 1605, in Dreux – 21 April 1672, in Vence) was a French bishop, Baroque Précieuses poet and exegete.

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Archdeacon

An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop.

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Arcis-sur-Aube

Arcis-sur-Aube (literally Arcis on Aube) is a commune in the Aube department in the Grand Est region of north-central France.

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Ark of the Covenant

The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony or the Ark of God, is believed to have been the most sacred religious relic of the Israelites.

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Athis-Mons

Athis-Mons is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Attila

Attila, frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death, in early 453.

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Île-de-France

The Île-de-France is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023.

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Battle of the Catalaunian Plains

The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (or Fields), also called the Battle of the Campus Mauriacus, Battle of Châlons, Battle of Troyes or the Battle of Maurica, took place on June 20, 451 AD, between a coalition, led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I, against the Huns and their vassals, commanded by their king, Attila.

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Book of hours

Books of hours (horae) are Christian prayer books, which were used to pray the canonical hours.

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Book of Judith

The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha.

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Calendar of saints

The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.

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Calming the storm

Calming the storm is one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels, reported in Matthew, Mark, and Luke (the Synoptic Gospels).

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Canon regular

The Canons Regular of St. Augustine are priests who live in community under a rule (and κανών, kanon, in Greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated by a partly similar terminology.

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Canonization

Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, or authorized list of that communion's recognized saints.

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Cardinal Richelieu

Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French statesman and prelate of the Catholic Church.

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Carmelites

The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo; abbreviated OCarm), known as the Carmelites or sometimes by synecdoche known simply as Carmel, is a mendicant order in the Roman Catholic Church for both men and women.

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Catherine de' Medici

Catherine de' Medici (Caterina de' Medici,; Catherine de Médicis,; 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589) was an Italian (Florentine) noblewoman born into the Medici family.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic Encyclopedia

The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, also referred to as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia and the Original Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language encyclopedia published in the United States designed to serve the Catholic Church.

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Catholic League (French)

The Catholic League of France (Ligue catholique), sometimes referred to by contemporary (and modern) Catholics as the Holy League (La Sainte Ligue), was a major participant in the French Wars of Religion.

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Charles Péguy

Charles Pierre Péguy (7 January 1873 – 5 September 1914) was a French poet, essayist, and editor.

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Charles VI of France

Charles VI (3 December 136821 October 1422), nicknamed the Beloved (le Bien-Aimé) and in the 19th century, the Mad (le Fol or le Fou), was King of France from 1380 until his death in 1422.

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Childeric I

Childeric I (Childéric; Flavius Childericus; reconstructed Frankish: *Hildirīk; died 481 AD) was a Frankish leader in the northern part of imperial Roman Gaul and a member of the Merovingian dynasty, described as a king (Latin rex), both on his Roman-style seal ring, which was buried with him, and in fragmentary later records of his life.

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Chrodegang

Chrodegang (Chrodogangus; Chrodegang, Hruotgang;Spellings of his name in (Latin) primary sources are extremely varied: Chrodegangus, Grodegandus, Grodegangus, Grodogangus, Chrodogandus, Krodegandus, Chrodegrangus, Chrotgangus, Ruotgangus, Droctegangus, Chrodegand, and Sirigangus. In English it is also found as Godegrand, Gundigran, Ratgang, Rodigang, and Sirigang.

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Claude de Lorraine, chevalier d'Aumale

Claude de Lorraine, chevalier d'Aumale (13 December 1564 – 3 January 1591) was a French churchman, noble and military commander during the French Wars of Religion.

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Clotilde

Clotilde (474 – 3 June 545 in Burgundy, France) (also known as Clotilda (Fr.), Chlothilde (Ger.) Chlothieldis, Chlotichilda, Clodechildis, Croctild, Crote-hild, Hlotild, Rhotild, and many other forms), is a saint and was a Queen of the Franks. Genevieve and Clotilde are 6th-century Frankish saints.

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Clovis I

Clovis (Chlodovechus; reconstructed Frankish: *Hlōdowig; – 27 November 511) was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Franks under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of petty kings to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs. Genevieve and Clovis I are 6th-century Frankish saints.

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Confessor

In a number of Christian traditions, including Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism, a confessor is a priest who hears the confessions of penitents and pronounces absolution.

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Confraternity

A confraternity (cofradía; confraria) is generally a Christian voluntary association of laypeople created for the purpose of promoting special works of Christian charity or piety, and approved by the Church hierarchy.

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Congregation of France

The Congregation of France (French: Labaye de Sainte Genevieve et la Congregation de France lit: The Abbey of Sainte Genevieve and the Congregation of France) was a congregation of houses of canons regular in France..

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Consecrated virgin

In the Catholic Church, a consecrated virgin is a woman who has been consecrated by the church to a life of perpetual virginity as a bride of Christ. Genevieve and consecrated virgin are consecrated virgins.

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Courtier

A courtier is a person who attends the royal court of a monarch or other royalty.

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Crossing the Red Sea

The Crossing of the Red Sea or Parting of the Red Sea (Kriat Yam Suph, lit. "parting of the sea of reeds") is an episode in the origin myth of The Exodus in the Hebrew Bible.

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Denis of Paris

Denis of France was a 3rd-century Christian martyr and saint. Genevieve and Denis of Paris are French Roman Catholic saints and Gallo-Roman saints.

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Devil in Christianity

In Christianity, the Devil is the personification of evil.

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Devotional medal

A devotional medal is a medal issued for religious devotion.

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Dicastery for the Causes of Saints

In the Catholic Church, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, previously named the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, is the dicastery of the Roman Curia that oversees the complex process that leads to the canonization of saints, passing through the steps of a declaration of "heroic virtues" and beatification.

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Donald Attwater

Donald Attwater by Eric Gill, 1929, private collection. Donald Attwater (24 December 1892 – 30 January 1977) was a British Catholic author, editor and translator, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Notre Dame.

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Dragon

A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide.

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Draveil

Draveil is a commune in the Essonne department in the southern outer suburbs of Paris, France.

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Early modern period

The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.

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Easter

Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.

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Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin.

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Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus; 28 October c.1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.

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Ergotism

Ergotism (pron.) is the effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea fungus—from the Latin clava "club" or clavus "nail" and -ceps for "head", i.e. the purple club-headed fungus—that infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs.

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Esther

Esther, originally Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.

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Eucharist

The Eucharist (from evcharistía), also known as Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament and the Lord's Supper, is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches, and as an ordinance in others.

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Feast of Corpus Christi

The Feast of Corpus Christi, also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, is a liturgical solemnity celebrating the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist; the feast is observed by the Latin Church, in addition to certain Western Orthodox, Lutheran, and Anglican churches.

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Feast of the Ascension

The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ (also called the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Ascension Day, Ascension Thursday, or sometimes Holy Thursday) commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven.

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François de La Rochefoucauld (cardinal)

François de La Rochefoucauld (8 December 1558 – 14 February 1645) was a French Cardinal and an "important figure in the French Counter Reformation church".

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Francia

The Kingdom of the Franks (Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.

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Francis I of France

Francis I (er|; Françoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547.

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Franks

Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.

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French Wars of Religion

The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants (called Huguenots) from 1562 to 1598.

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Fresco

Fresco (or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster.

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Gaul

Gaul (Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy.

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Germanus of Auxerre

Germanus of Auxerre (Germanus Antissiodorensis; Garmon Sant; Saint Germain l'Auxerrois; 378 – c. 442–448 AD) was a western Roman clergyman who was bishop of Autissiodorum in Late Antique Gaul. Genevieve and Germanus of Auxerre are Gallo-Roman saints.

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Guillaume Chartier (bishop)

Guillaume Chartier (1386 – 1 May 1472) was a French bishop.

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Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.

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Hôtel des Monnaies, Paris

The Hôtel des Monnaies is an 18th-century building located at 11 Quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, which has housed the Monnaie de Paris (the Paris Mint) since its construction.

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Henry I of France

Henry I (4 May 1008 – 4 August 1060) was King of the Franks from 1031 to 1060.

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Henry III of France

Henry III (19 September 1551 – 2 August 1589) was King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589, as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1573 to 1575.

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High Middle Ages

The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the period of European history that lasted from AD 1000 to 1300.

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Holy Innocents' Cemetery

The Holy Innocents' Cemetery (French: Cimetière des Saints-Innocents or Cimetière des Innocents) is a defunct cemetery in Paris that was used from the Middle Ages until the late 18th century.

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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (9 March 17492 April 1791) was a French writer, orator, statesman and a prominent figure of the early stages of the French Revolution.

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House of Bourbon

The House of Bourbon (also) is a dynasty that originated in the Kingdom of France as a branch of the Capetian dynasty, the royal House of France.

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House of Guise

The House of Guise (Wieze; Wiese) was a prominent French noble family that was involved heavily in the French Wars of Religion.

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Huguenots

The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.

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Huns

The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th centuries AD.

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Iconology

Iconology is a method of interpretation in cultural history and the history of the visual arts used by Aby Warburg, Erwin Panofsky and their followers that uncovers the cultural, social, and historical background of themes and subjects in the visual arts.

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Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc (translit; Jehanne Darc; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. Genevieve and Joan of Arc are Angelic visionaries, female saints of medieval France, French Roman Catholic saints, women in medieval European warfare and women in war in France.

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Laying on of hands

The laying on of hands is a religious practice.

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Léonard Gaultier

Léonard Gaultier, or, as he sometimes signs himself, Galter, a French engraver, was born at Mainz about 1561, and died in Paris in 1641.

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Lent

Lent (Quadragesima, 'Fortieth') is the solemn Christian religious observance in the liturgical year commemorating the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert and enduring temptation by Satan, according to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, before beginning his public ministry.

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Leo I (emperor)

Leo I (401 – 18 January 474), also known as "the Thracian" (Thrax; ο Θραξ), was Roman emperor of the East from 457 to 474.

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Leucothea

In Greek mythology, Leucothea (white goddess), sometimes also called Leucothoe (Leukothóē), was one of the aspects under which an ancient sea goddess was recognized, in this case as a transformed nymph.

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Livre tournois

The livre tournois (abbreviation: ₶.) was one of numerous currencies used in medieval France, and a unit of account (i.e., a monetary unit used in accounting) used in Early Modern France.

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Loire

The Loire (Léger; Lêre; Liger; Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world.

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Louis Philippe I

Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France.

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Louis VI of France

Louis VI (late 1081 – 1 August 1137), called the Fat (le Gros) or the Fighter (le Batailleur), was King of the Franks from 1108 to 1137.

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Louis VII of France

Louis VII (1120 – 18 September 1180), called the Younger or the Young (le Jeune) to differentiate him from his father Louis VI, was King of France from 1137 to 1180.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Louis XV

Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774.

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Louis XVIII

Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired, was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.

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Lupus of Troyes

Lupus (Loup, Leu; Bleiddian) was an early bishop of Troyes. Genevieve and Lupus of Troyes are Gallo-Roman saints.

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Lyon

Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne.

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Marizy

Marizy is a former commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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Martin of Tours

Martin of Tours (Martinus Turonensis; 316/3368 November 397), also known as Martin the Merciful, was the third bishop of Tours. Genevieve and Martin of Tours are Gallo-Roman saints.

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Martyrologium Hieronymianum

The Martyrologium Hieronymianum (meaning "martyrology of Jerome") or Martyrologium sancti Hieronymi (meaning "martyrology of Saint Jerome") is an ancient martyrology or list of Christian martyrs in calendar order, one of the most used and influential of the Middle Ages.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. Genevieve and Mary, mother of Jesus are Angelic visionaries.

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Meaux

Meaux is a commune on the river Marne in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in the metropolitan area of Paris, France.

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Merovech

Merovech (Mérovée, Merowig; Meroveus; 411 – 458) was the ancestor of the Merovingian dynasty.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Monasticism

Monasticism, also called monachism or monkhood, is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work.

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Mortification of the flesh

Mortification of the flesh is an act by which an individual or group seeks to mortify or deaden their sinful nature, as a part of the process of sanctification.

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Nanterre

Nanterre is the prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department in the western suburbs of Paris, France.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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Napoleon III

Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.

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Nicolas de Largillière

Nicolas de Largillière (baptised 10 October 1656 – 20 March 1746) was a French painter and draughtsman.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia.

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Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre-Dame de Paris (meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the River Seine), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Octave (liturgy)

"Octave" has two senses in Christian liturgical usage.

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Orléans

Orléans ((US) and) is a city in north-central France, about 120 kilometres (74 miles) southwest of Paris.

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Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday is the Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter.

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Panthéon

The Panthéon (from the Classical Greek word πάνθειον,, ' to all the gods') is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Parable of the Faithful Servant

The Parable of the Faithful Servant (or Parable of the Door Keeper) is a parable of Jesus found in Matthew 24:42-51, Mark 13:34-37, and Luke 12:35-48 about how it is important for the faithful to keep watch.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Parlement of Paris

The Parlement of Paris (Parlement de Paris) was the oldest parlement in the Kingdom of France, formed in the 14th century.

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Patriarchs (Bible)

The patriarchs (אבות ʾAvot, "fathers") of the Bible, when narrowly defined, are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites.

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Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person.

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Paul Landowski

Paul Maximilien Landowski (1 June 1875 – 31 March 1961) was a French monument sculptor of Polish descent.

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Paul the Apostle

Paul (Koinē Greek: Παῦλος, romanized: Paûlos), also named Saul of Tarsus (Aramaic: ܫܐܘܠ, romanized: Šāʾūl), commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle (AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world.

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Pelagianism

Pelagianism is a Christian theological position that holds that the fall did not taint human nature and that humans by divine grace have free will to achieve human perfection.

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Penance

Penance is any act or a set of actions done out of repentance for sins committed, as well as an alternate name for the Catholic, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession.

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Petit Pont

The Petit Pont (Little Bridge) is an arch bridge crossing the River Seine in Paris, built in 1853, although a structure has crossed the river at this point since antiquity.

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as "the painter for France".

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Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade de la Libération

The public square in the 4th arrondissement of Paris that is now the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville ("City Hall Square") was, before 1802, called the Place de Grève.

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Pont de la Tournelle

The Pont de la Tournelle (Tournelle Bridge in English), is an arch bridge spanning the river Seine in Paris.

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Pope Eugene II

Pope Eugene II (Eugenius II; died 27 August 827) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 6 June 824 to his death.

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Pope Gregory I

Pope Gregory I (Gregorius I; – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. Genevieve and Pope Gregory I are Angelic visionaries.

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Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.

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Procession

A procession is an organized body of people walking in a formal or ceremonial manner.

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Prophet

In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Reign of Terror

The Reign of Terror or the Mountain Republic was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety.

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Relic

In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past.

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Reliquary

A reliquary (also referred to as a shrine, by the French term châsse., and historically also a type of ''phylactery'') is a container for relics.

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Republicanism

Republicanism is a Western political ideology that encompasses a range of ideas from civic virtue, political participation, harms of corruption, positives of mixed constitution, rule of law, and others.

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Rive Droite

The Rive Droite (Right Bank) is most commonly associated with the river Seine in central Paris.

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Robert I of France

Robert I (– 15 June 923) was the elected King of West Francia from 922 to 923.

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Robert II of France

Robert II (c. 972 – 20 July 1031), called the Pious (le Pieux) or the Wise (le Sage), was King of the Franks from 996 to 1031, the second from the Capetian dynasty.

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Rogation days

Rogation days are days of prayer and fasting in Western Christianity.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris

The Archdiocese of Paris (Archidioecesis Parisiensis; Archidiocèse de Paris) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. Genevieve and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris are Christianity in Paris.

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Sacramental bread

Sacramental bread, also called Communion bread, Communion wafer, Sacred host, Eucharistic bread, the Lamb or simply the host (lit), is the bread used in the Christian ritual of the Eucharist.

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Saint Peter

Saint Peter (died AD 64–68), also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church.

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Saint symbolism

Symbolism of Christian saints has been used from the very beginnings of the religion.

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Saint-Étienne-du-Mont

Saint-Étienne-du-Mont is a church in Paris, France, on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the 5th arrondissement, near the Panthéon.

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Saint-Denys de la Chapelle

Saint-Denys de la Chapelle is a church in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.

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Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois

The Church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois is a medieval Roman Catholic church in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, directly across from the Louvre Palace.

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Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis

The Église Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis is a church on rue Saint-Antoine in the Marais quarter of Paris.

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Sainte-Chapelle

The Sainte-Chapelle (Holy Chapel) is a royal chapel in the Gothic style, within the medieval Palais de la Cité, the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century, on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine in Paris, France.

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Seine

The Seine is a river in northern France.

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Seminary

A seminary, school of theology, theological college, or divinity school is an educational institution for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in scripture and theology, generally to prepare them for ordination to serve as clergy, in academics, or mostly in Christian ministry.

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Shrine

A shrine (scrinium "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: escrin "box or case") is a sacred space dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon, or similar figure of respect, wherein they are venerated or worshipped.

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Siege of Paris (845)

The Siege of Paris of 845 was the culmination of a Viking invasion of West Francia.

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Simeon Stylites

Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Styliteܫܡܥܘܢ ܕܐܣܛܘܢܐ, Koine Greek Συμεὼν ὁ Στυλίτης, سمعان العمودي (Greek: Συμεών ό Στυλίτης;; 2 September 459) was a Syrian Christian ascetic, who achieved notability by living 37 years on a small platform on top of a pillar near Aleppo (in modern Syria).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevieve

Also known as Saint Genevieve, Saint Genovefa, Sainte-Geneviève of Paris, St Genevieve, St. Geneviève.

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