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Germaine was born to a poor French family near Toulouse in the year of Our Lord 1579. Her right hand was withered from birth, and she suffered from scrofula, or “the king’s evil”, for her entire life. Germaine’s stepmother was constantly cruel to her, forcing her to sleep in the stables or in a tiny attic. She spent most of her time as a shepherdess, and her great devotion to God and the Blessed Mother helped her to rejoice in her solitude and grow in great humility. God protected her flock of sheep while she attended daily Mass, and flooded streams often parted to let her reach the church. She was as generous as possible with what little food she acquired, and she treated all people with kindness, despite being regularly mocked for her piety. Once her stepmother sought to catch her allegedly stealing bread, but when Germaine opened her apron, bouquets of roses tumbled out, despite it being the dead of winter. Germaine refused to ever move to a more comfortable room, and died in her little attic at just twenty-two years of age. Her body is incorrupt to this day despite an attack on her relics by French revolutionaries.
IN Basilicata, near the river Silaro, the birthday of the holy martyrs Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia, who were brought thither from Sicily, in the reign of Diocletian, and after being plunged into a vessel of melted lead, after being exposed to the beasts, and on the pillory, from which torments they escaped uninjured through the power of God, they ended their religious combats.
At Dorostorum, in Mysia, St. Hesychius, a soldier, who was arrested with blessed Julius, and after him crowned with martyrdom, under the governor Maximus.
At Cordova, in Spain, St. Benildes, martyr.
At Zephirium, in Cilicia, St. Dulas, martyr, who, under the governor Maximus, was, for the name of Christ, scourged, laid on the gridiron, scalded with boiling oil, and after enduring other trials, received for his victory the palm of martyrdom.
At Palmyra, in Syria, the holy martyrs Libya and Leonides, sisters, and Eutropia, a girl of twelve years, who won the crown of martyrdom by various torments.
At Valenciennes, the decease of St. Landelin, abbot.
At Clermont, in Auvergne, St. Abraham, confessor, illustrious by his holiness and miracles.
In Switzerland, on Mount Jou, St. Bernard of Menthon, confessor.
At Pibrac, in the diocese of Toulouse, St. Germana Cousin, virgin. After a life of poverty, humility, and patient suffering amidst many trials in the care of her flocks, she went to her heavenly spouse, and became renowned for numerous miracles after her death. Pope Pius IX placed her in the number of holy virgins.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.