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Saint Germaine Cousin (Germana Cousin Germaine of Pibrac Germana) (1579–1601) is a French saint. She was born in 1579 of humble parents at Pibrac a village about ten miles from Toulouse.Of her the Catholic Encyclopedia writes: From her birth she seemed marked out for suffering; she came into the world with a deformed hand and the disease of scrofula and while yet an infant lost her mother. Her father soon married again but his second wife treated Germaine with much cruelty.
