Ted Owens: vol. : St. Genevieve

St Genevieve is an elite reform school for girls who failed to graduate before their eighteenth birthday, to help them excel at the lifetime they have ahead of them. It is a rigorous and all consuming curriculum that requires around the clock, seven days a week study 📚… but it’s not all studies… here at St. Genevieve we believe in interpersonal relationships so the whole student body spends their summers together relaxing and living life to the fullest in “Paradise” a 5,000 acre desolate island near the coast of Somalia where students learn the importance of character traits like selflessness, perseverance, physical endurance and teamwork. Who was St Genevieve?: a young woman became admired for her piety and devotion to works of charity, and practiced fasting and the mortification of the flesh which included abstaining from meat and breaking her fast only twice in the week. "These mortifications she continued for over thirty years, till her ecclesiastical superiors thought it their duty to make her diminish her austerities." Genevieve had frequent visions of heavenly saints and angels. She reported her visions and prophecies until her enemies conspired to drown her in a lake. Through the intervention of Germanus, their animosity was finally overcome. The Bishop of Paris appointed her to look after the welfare of the other Consecrated virgins, and by her instruction and example, she led them to a high degree of sanctity. Genevieve's attributes are a lit candle, keys and cattle. Sometimes Genevieve is also depicted with the devil, who is said to have blown out the candle when she went to pray in the church at night. Saint Genevieve's relics had been publicly burnt at the Place de Grève in 1793 during the French Revolution. An institute named after the saint was the Daughters of St. Geneviève, founded at Paris in 1636, by Francesca de Blosset, with the object of nursing the sick and teaching young girls. A somewhat similar institute, Miramiones, had been founded under the invocation of the Holy Trinity in 1611 by Marie Bonneau de Rubella Beauharnais de Miramion. These two institutes were united in 1665, and the associates called the Canonesses of Ste. Geneviève. The members took no vows, but merely promised obedience to the rules.