Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints . reat measure dueto her initiative that they commenced building the firstChristian church within the walls of the city, which wascompleted after their deaths, and occupied the site of thepresent Pantheon. St. Genevieve is also looked upon as thereal foundress of the celebrated Abbey of St. Denis, outside thetown, for she it was who replaced the ruined chapel above thetomb of the martyred Bishop, after whom it is named, with astately church, and revived the pilgrimage to the shrine, whichhad long b
Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints . reat measure dueto her initiative that they commenced building the firstChristian church within the walls of the city, which wascompleted after their deaths, and occupied the site of thepresent Pantheon. St. Genevieve is also looked upon as thereal foundress of the celebrated Abbey of St. Denis, outside thetown, for she it was who replaced the ruined chapel above thetomb of the martyred Bishop, after whom it is named, with astately church, and revived the pilgrimage to the shrine, whichhad long been discontinued. The biographers of St. Genevieve further relate that whenthe Huns, under the fierce barbarian leader Attila, invadedFrance, and were threatening the capital itself, it was due toher intercession that Paris was saved. The mere rumour thatthe Scourge of God, as he was called, was approaching causedsuch a terrible panic amongst the inhabitants that they wouldno doubt have fallen an easy prey had their fears been Genevieve, however, followed by a train of holy women,. THE DEDICATION OF ST. GENEVIEVEBy Puvis de Chavannes \lPantheoH, Paris To face p. 218 ST. GENEVIEVE 219 went up to the ramparts, and, standing, on the wall, she prayedaloud that God would avert the danger, or, if it must come,that He would give His people strength to maintain the receipt of the news that the hordes of the enemy hadactually turned aside from their march, and gone southwards,on the very day when St. Genevifeve put up her petition, theParisians became nearly frantic with joy, falling prostrate atthe feet of their deliverer, as they called her, whenever sheappeared, so that her progress through the streets was like thatof a victorious general. St. Genevieve died in 512 at the age of eighty-nine, one yearafter King Clovis was called to his rest, and was buried besidehim in the unfinished church originally begun in honour ofSaints Peter and Paul, but later named after
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