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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Criscentia, young girl of Paris

Saint ID

S01315

Reported Death Not Before

0

Reported Death Not After

550

Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Virgins
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02448Gregory of Tours writes the Glory of the Confessors, in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588. Overview entry.
E02767Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Confessors (103), tells of the tomb outside Paris of *Criscentia (young girl of Paris, S01315): a man who swallows dust scratched from the tomb is cured; a sick moneyer sees the girl in a vision, who tells him to build an oratory over her grave; people with toothache who lay little sticks on the tomb, and then apply them to their teeth, find relief. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588.