“On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, ten lords a-leaping ...”Today, the holiday hoopla dies down. The banks reopen, the post office delivers the mail again, and Federal employees schlep back to work. It's still kind of quiet around here, though.
Meanwhile, both the Eastern and Western churches remember the French shepherd girl Saint Genevieve, who lived in the mid- and late- fifth century. Her sanctity was noted at a very early age by Saint Germanus, bishop of Auxerre, who consecrated her to God at the age of seven. Genevieve is patroness of the city of Paris, which has been saved through her intercession more than once, the first time from her contemporary, Attila the Hun.
Not too shabby.
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