Saint Genou

Who they were

Genulf (Genou) lived with another monk, St Genitus, at what is now Celles-sur-Nahon, and in the ninth century his relics came to the abbey of Strada on the Indre. A document of about the year 1000 makes Genitus his father and says both were sent from Rome in the third century to preach in Gaul, converted many, and died as hermits by the Nahon.

The later tradition that he was the first bishop of Cahors is, Butler says after Duchesne, quite untrustworthy, though Cahors still keeps his feast on 17 January.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

A hermit saint of Berry, claimed by tradition as first bishop of Cahors.