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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Girl, buried at the church of Venerandus in Clermont

Saint ID

S01262

Reported Death Not Before

400

Reported Death Not After

530

Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Virgins
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02595Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Confessors (34), tells the story of a tomb in the church of *Venerandus (bishop of Clermont, early 5th c., S01261) in Clermont (central Gaul): its lid was broken, revealing the body of a *Girl, wholly uncorrupted (S01262), which lay exposed for a year; the blind wife of Georgius, count of Clermont, regained her sight after seeing a vision in which she was told to cover the tomb, and did so; story set in the mid-6th c. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588.