Song: Rain https://halosarehistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/rain_bykathygreenholdt.mp3 When writing about a saint, I usually turn to one or more books for research. So, be forewarned that my sole “authority” on the life of Germaine Cousin was Wikipedia.org. After poking around the Internet a bit more, I discovered conflicting accounts of her vita. Still, Germaine’s consensus story is worth telling. Who Was Germaine? Germaine Cousin was born in 1579 in Pibrac, a small town near Toulouse in Southwestern France. At birth, one of her hands was formed differently than the other, and she suffered from scrofula, a tubercular disease. Germaine’s family were farmers. Her mother died while she was still a baby, and her father remarried. Fearing the spread of disease, Germaine’s parents sent her out of the home…