Today, the liturgy celebrates St. Germain of Paris, who left a strong imprint on the Parisian capital. To cite the above examples, the boulevard owes its name to Saint-Germain, bishop of Paris in 555. The soccer team, founded in 1970, took its name from the French capital and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where the club was founded. And the church, near the Louvre, is dedicated to the saint.
The text dedicated to St. Germain by the Vatican Agency is concise, although it offers data. It says that he was born in Autun (Burgundy, France), at the end of the V century. That he took his vows and was entrusted with the monastery of Saint Syphronianus, which he recovered from decadence. That he was advisor to the king in Paris and became bishop of the city. And that his monastery was singled out as a model throughout France and was dedicated to him at his death.
You could to be added to that St. Germain lacked small He was in danger of being aborted first and then poisoned. Then, with a relative, he received a solid formation and was ordained a priest, became abbot of the monastery of St. Symphorian, cared for the needy, built churches, tried to sow peace in civil strife, denounced vices of the court, and ruled his diocese with prudence. He died in 576.
Mariana de Jesús de Paredes, Patroness of Ecuador
The Franciscan Family also celebrates on this day Mariana de Jesús de Paredes, born in Quito in 1618, and patron saint of Ecuador, together with the Virgin Mary. Virgin of Quinche. Orphaned since childhood, she was a virgin, and unable to enter any monastery, she led a life dedicated to prayer and fasting at home. The Roman Martyrology says that "she consecrated her life to Christ in the Third Order of St. Francis and used her strength to help the poor Indians and blacks (1645)". She is the first Ecuadorian saint: she was canonized by Pius XII in 1950.
