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September 5 · Bishop

St. Genebald of Laon

St. Genebald of Laon

Traditional feast

September 5
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Bishop

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on September 5 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican Martyrologies. Saussaye, Grevcn, and Parisian Martyrologies. At Soissons and Laon since 1852, on Sept. 4. Flodoard in the 10th cent, speaks of S. Genebald as being numbered among the Saints. Authority A Life written by Hincmar of Rheims, d. about a.d. 886; trustworthy perhaps as to the outline of facts, but not as to the colour given them.J S. Genebald, Bishop of Laon, was married to the niece of S. Remigius, and had by her two children after he was bishop, a boy named Latro, who succeeded him in the see of Laon, and a daughter, Vulpecula.

Feast days

Feast: September 5

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Genebald of Laon's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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St. Victorinus

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Sts. Censurinus

September 5 · Martyrs
Sts. Eudoxius, Zeno and Others

Sts. Eudoxius

September 5 · Martyrs
← All 1726 saints in the library
Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.