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Genevieve stands watch.

By Dan Hull

Saint Genevieve (422-512) saved Parisians from the Huns, the legend goes, in 451. People had started to flee Paris in anticipation of the invasion led by Atilla--but stopped when she told them she had a vision that the Huns would not enter Paris. She became the city's patron saint. In 1928, a grateful Paris erected a statue to her on the Pont de la Tournelle (now about 400 years old). Genevieve is facing east, the direction from which the Huns approached. She is also is said to have converted Clovis, king of the pagan Franks, to Christianty. If you walk from the Right Bank to the Left Bank near the Ille Saint Louis, you walk right under her, with Notre Dame on your right.

Full post as published by What About Clients? on July 04, 2008 (boomark / email).