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338 838 B. GENNAIA recognized her wedding-ring, and qnes- tions were asked and answered. Grolo now arrived. A full explanation resulted, and he was condemned on the spot to the death his crimes deserved. Scried in great grief was eager to restore his wife to her proper station, and atone for his cruelty. Bat G^nevi^ve would not stir from the spot until it had been con- secrated to the Blessed Virgin Mary; so they sent in all haste for the arch- bishop, and as soon as possible they built a chapel there. They tried to restore her to health and strength with good food, but she would eat nothing but raw vegetables, such as she had lived on all these years. She lived till April 2, and then she died, and was buried at the new chapel, where two miracles on the day of its consecra- tion attested the sanctity of the long- suffering (Jenevi^ve. Sigfried built a monastery at the place, which was called " Our Lady's Mount: " and there, in 1113, he and his son Tristram took the monastic habit While the ceremony of their profession was going on, one of the priests chanted " Sancta Geneveva, ora pro nobis." This was taken as an inspiration and a proof of her holiness, which was further attested by miracles. Le Mire, Fasti, is the first to call her " Blessed." Migne, Die, des LSgendea. The story is told with many amplifica- tions and variations by many writers, and in different collections of legends. A Life of her was written by Matthew Emich, of Boppard, in 1472, and this work is the foundation of all the others ; but the whole account is said to be built on the true story of B. Mary op Bba- BANT. Bam, Hagiologie Nationale de Belgique. Guenlbault, Die, d'leono- graphie, Molanus. Cahier says Gene- vieve has no business among the saints. Local belief has it that she is still sitting spinning behind the altar in the church of Frauenkirchen, on the site of the famous Abbey of Lach, and that the hum of her wheel is heard there. Eckenstein. B. Gennaia, or Janijabia (31), Jan. 17, V. + 1293. Married to B. Sper- andeo, or Sperandio del Sperandei, of Gubbio. Li 1250 they separated from religious motives. He be<»me a monk in the Benedictine monastery of St Peter, at Gubbio, where he died abbot, Jan. 15, 1260. Meantime, Gennaia, in 1250, took the veU in the monastery of St. Mary, O.S.A., commonly called Paradise, outside the walls of Gubbio. Nearly a hundred years afterwards the nuns of that house removed into the new convent of Santo Spirito, inside the town ; and thither, in 1482, by order of Pope Sixtus IV., the bodies of BB. Gennaia, Agatha (7), and Cecilia of the same order, were translated with great devotion. Jacobilli. St. Gennosa, Genebosa. B. Genoise, Genovese. St. Genovefa, GeneviIjve (2). B. Genovese, of Sienna, Dec. 23. + 1287. O.S.D. Represented omi- versing with her guardian angel. Her name is forgotten. She was called Genovese, the Genoese, because her father came from Genoa. She was a young widow, and her mother ill treated her, because she persisted in not marry- ing again. She was a friend and com- panion of B. Neba Tolomei, and the only person who knew how rough Nera's hair shirt was. Mentioned by Pio and Bazzi in their histories of Dominican Saints, and by Gu6rin, who caUs her Genoise. St. Gentiana, Sept. ll. Supposed same as St. Vinciana, sister of St. Lan- doald. AA,SS. B. Gentile, Jan. 28. Bom at Ravenna, 1471. -f Jan. 28, 1530. Joint founder with B. Mabgabet op Ravenna (whose disciple she was) and Father Jerome Maluselli, of the Order of the Good Jesus. Gentile was the daughter of Domenica and a goldsmith named Thomas Giusti. She married a Venetian tailor, named James Pianella, who treated her very unkindly. He mistook her abstraction from earthly things for dis- like to himself, or love of some other man; he kept her up sewing for him the greater part of the night, and gave her unkind words, and sometimes blows. He denounced her as a sorceress, and when she was cleared of that accusation, he deserted her in a time of fiunine,