Circles Within Circles

Revisiting Dante, and making a surprising connection

And how was everybody’s weekend? On Sunday, I observed the Feast of St. Geneviève of Paris. She was a Gaulish woman, name of “Genovefa,” but that became Geneviève in French. The French say it “ZHAHN-vee-ehv,” not our “JINN-eh-veev”. What a story that saint has! She was an abbess in Lutetia, the Roman settlement that would become Paris. She had a reputa…