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inhabitants of this latter town, a tradition prevails, that when the people of Xanten brought St. Gerebern's remains to the hill, where his chapel is now erected, those beasts yoked, to a waggon on which the saints relics were borne, could not proceed farther, through some supernatural cause. Wherefore, the
Sonsbeck people deposited St. Gerebern's remains on that elevated site, and erected their primitive church over them.
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longer be moved on the way to Xanten, and some citizens of Geel are said to have pursued the "robbers", so that they took some of
Gerebernus' bones from the coffin and fled. Only a few kilometers before Xanten, in the area of today's Sonsbeck, Gerebernus' bones could no longer be moved, so they were buried there and a chapel was built for him.
338:. This was one of the capital cities of Cleves ; and, it had a representative in the council. Hence, as Henschenius supposes, the people of Sonsbeck and of Xanten might have been allied, in stealing away the body of St. Gerebern, and consequently, this might account for a transference of his remains to Sonsbeck.
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The old collegiate church of Xanten has no representation or emblems whatever of St. Gerebern, or of his companion, St. Dympna, although this fine building is covered on the interior with various old stone images, wooden figures, and pictures. Nor does any tradition exist, to show that the remains of
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Gerebernus is usually depicted as a bearded priest. His iconographic saints' attributes are palm and lance. St. Gerebernus is considered the patron saint against chiragra (gout-related pain in the wrist), paralysis and epilepsy. His
Catholic feast day is May 15. Sometimes July 13 is also mentioned as
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His name has been introduced by Thomas
Dempster, into the "Menologium Scoticum," at the 15th of May. The Rev. Alban Butler has some notices of St. Gerebrand—a name by which he is likewise known—at this same date. His intercession was devoutly implored, by those suffering from fevers and the gout, in
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At the 20th of July, in the
Carthusian Martyrology, we have notice of a feast for the Translation of St. Gerebern, priest, at Xanten, on the Rhine. And Grammay tells us, that in the church of St. Dympna, at Gheel, the head St. Herbern is kept, his body having been translated to Sonsbeck. Among the
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According to legend, both
Dymphnas and Gerebernus' bones were stolen from Geel in their coffins by "robbers from Xanten". According to popular belief, the stealing of the bones of saints was not considered theft, as they could only be stolen if the saint agreed. However, Dymphna's bones could no
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ARTICLE XIII. Commemoration of St. Dympna's and of St. Gerebern's arrival, at
Antwerp. Such is the festival, found in a Carthusian Martyrology, at Bruxelles, for the 11th of April, as the Bollandists inform us. Their actions and final martyrdom, in the city of Gheel, will be found, at the 15th of
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Baring-Gould writes under May 15 of St. Gerebern, or
Genebrand, Priest, Martyr and Patron of Sonsbeck after an extensive account of Saint Dympna for the same day. He notes that most of the information is given in sources that described Dympna. He goes on,
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Reports about miracles that happened at the grave of St. Gerebernus triggered pilgrimages there. The pilgrimage to St. Gerebern continued in the 18th century. The pilgrimage ended with the destruction of
Sonsbeck by bombing in 1945 during
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and in fevers ; and blessed rings which bear his name are used. Dr. Wintringham and Dr. Liger, in their treatises on the gout, inform us that this disorder rages even amongst labourers in the countries about the
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He was a holy Irish priest, who having baptized St. Dympna in her infancy, was her attendant in her flight beyond sea, and was beheaded by her murderers. His relics were translated to
Santbeck in the
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in that country. They suffered some time in the seventh century, but the records are very imperfect. Saint Gerebern is Patron Saint of a village in Rhenish Prussia, where his relics are enshrined.
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when she was a child. He was her companion when she fled to Belgium, where he was murdered beside her. His relics were taken to
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and others, where acid wines, such as Rhenish, &c. are much drank. On St. Genebrard, see Colgan, MSS. ad 15 Maij.
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