Georgia
Martyrological notice
At Auvergne, of St. Georgia, virgin.
Baring-Gould: February · S. GEORGIA, V
(DATE UNCERTAIN, BUT PROBABLY IN THE 5TH CENT.)
[Gallican Martyrology. Authority:--S. Gregory of Tours, De Gloria Confess., c. 34.]
This pious virgin was a native of Clermont, in Auvergne, where she served God like Anna, constantly attending in the temple. Very little is known of her life, which flowed on in calm simplicity, and would hardly have required a more particular notice than the insertion of her name, were it not for one graceful incident narrated by S. Gregory of Tours, to the effect that as her body was being carried to the cathedral for sepulture, a great company of doves or pigeons fluttered above the mourning train, and settled on the roof of the minster, whilst the last rites were being performed; and this the pious and simple people regarded as a token of divine favour.
Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness
Arvernis, in Gallia, sanctae Georgiae Virginis.