Venerable
Genardus
Monk, venerated in the Western Church.
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- Era
- 7th century
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Genardus (Génard) was a hermit of the Poitou region in the 7th century, perhaps a monk from the monastery of Nouaillé-Maupertuis. He is venerated as a saint in the Western Church. No precise details of his life are known.
All that is known is that near the village of Nossay, which now bears the name Saint-Génard, a church dedicated to him stands in open country. It was probably at first a hermitage founded in Merovingian times. In the Carolingian era a large necropolis formed around the sanctuary, and later a priory of the monastery of Nouaillé-Maupertuis was placed in the middle of the old cemetery.
The monastery of Nouaillé-Maupertuis kept his feast on 11 October. Today he is commemorated in the diocese of Poitiers on 13 November, together with the other holy monks and hermits of Poitou.