62. [61.] St. Genevieve.* Genevieve occasionally appears to Parisians at a middling altitude in splendid attire, and displaying at those times a seemingly saintly countenance. She also allows herself to be viewed by the multitude; but when some of them begin to worship her, her countenance then instantly changes, and her clothing, too, and she becomes like any other woman. Moreover, she scolds them and reproaches their foolishness in being willing to worship a woman whose lot is no different from that of ordinary women, saying that she is no more esteemed among her companions than any other woman. She continues to scold them, too, until they are ashamed that people in the world are taken with such nonsense-adding that the reason she appeared to them as she did at first was to have it made known who among them were so deranged. I heard some angels saying that she sometimes appears as described in order to separate worshipers of people from worshipers of God. Genevieve also teaches them that she knows no more than others, and that she is not at all aware of her being invoked. * Also St. Geneivieve or Genovefa, c. 422-c. 500, French nun and patron saint of Paris. Miraculous power was attributed to her because of her influence with the Frankish conquerors of Paris and her diversion from the city in 451 of the hordes of Huns under Attila II. After her death aid continued to be invoked, and the cessation of a fierce pestilence in 1129 was attributed to her intercession.