Saint Gens

Saint Gens
Statue of Grand saint Gens, in Monteux
Born	1104 Monteux
Died	16 May 1127

Saint Gens (1104 – 16 May 1127), also named Saint Gens du Beaucet, was a hermit.

He was born in Monteux, near Carpentras, in today's southern France at the beginning of the 12th century. When he was a teenager, he lived far from his family and his village, as a hermit, in a small valley around Le Beaucet.

He lived in renouncement, praying, working and doing penitence. He is called upon to obtain rain during droughts. With his death, on May 16, 1127, he was buried close to a rock in the middle of the small valley where a Romance vault was high about the middle of the 12th century. Many miracles are attributed to his intervention, and his veneration is approved by the Catholic Church.