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
ID | Title | E02595 | Gregory 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. |
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