St. Germaine Cousin

June 15 is the feast day of St. Germaine Cousin, a simple
and pious young girl who lived in Pibrac, France in the late 1500s.
Germaine was born in 1579 to poor parents. Her father was a farmer, and
her mother died when she was still an infant. She was born with a
deformed right arm and hand, as well as the disease of scrofula, a
tubercular condition.Her father remarried soon after the death of
her mother, but his new wife was filled with disgust by Germaine’s
condition. She tormented and neglected Germaine, and taught her siblings
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