St Germain des Pres

[Metro : St Germain des Pres] 

Saint Germain is located in Paris in the left bank artistic Paris, Pantheon, the Sorbonne University, St Sulpice Church (Da Vinci Code) and Notre-Dame de Paris area

Bishop of Paris; born near Autun, Saône-et-Loire, c. 496; died at Paris, 28 May, 576. He studied at Avalon and also at Luzy under the guidance of his cousin Scapilion, a priest.

At the age of thirty-four he was ordained by St. Agrippinus of Autun and became Abbot of Saint-Symphorien near that town. His characteristic virtue, love for the poor, manifested itself so strongly in his alms-giving, that his monks, fearing he would give away everything, rebelled.

As he happened to be in Paris, in 555, when Bishop Eusebius died, Childebert kept him, and with the unanimous consent of the clergy and people he was consecrated to the vacant see.

Under his influence the king, who had been very worldly was reformed and led a Christian life.