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Also known as

• Father of the Poor
• Germain
• Germano

Memorial

• 28 May
• 8 November as one of the Saints of the Diocese of Evry

Profile

Priest, ordained by Saint Agrippinus of Autun. Abbot. Bishop of Paris, France in 555. Taught and ordained Saint Bertrand of Le Mans. Spiritual teacher of Saint Droctoveus. Cured King Childebert I from an unnamed illness, and converted him from a misspent life. The king then built him the abbey of Saint Vincent, now known as Saint-Germain-des-Pres.

Born

• 496 at Autun, France

Died

• 28 May 576 in Paris, France of natural causes
• interred in a decorated tomb in the chapel of Saint Symphorien next to the abbey church c.635
• relics re-shrined to the church in 754 by order of King Pepin the Short

Canonized

• 754 by Pope Stephen II

Patronage

• choristers
• –
• Paris, France
• Rimouski, Quebec, archdiocese of

MLA Citation

• “Saint Germanus of Paris“. CatholicSaints.Info. 5 April 2024. Web. 7 May 2024. <>