[2] Only a few kilometers before Xanten, in the area of today's Sonsbeck, Gerebernus' bones could no longer be moved, so they were buried there and a chapel was built for him.

[8] The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints under May 15, ST. GENEBRARD, OR GENEBERN, MARTYR.He was a holy Irish priest, who having baptized St. Dympna in her infancy, was her attendant in her flight beyond sea, and was beheaded by her murderers.

His relics were translated to Santbeck in the duchy of Cleves, where his intercession is devoutly implored, especially for relief under the gout and in fevers ; and blessed rings which bear his name are used.

Dr. Wintringham and Dr. Liger, in their treatises on the gout, inform us that this disorder rages even amongst labourers in the countries about the Rhine, in Silesia and others, where acid wines, such as Rhenish, &c. are much drank.

[10] Baring-Gould writes under May 15 of St. Gerebern, or Genebrand, Priest, Martyr and Patron of Sonsbeck after an extensive account of Saint Dympna for the same day.

His intercession was devoutly implored, by those suffering from fevers and the gout, in the country about the Rhine...[11] The old collegiate church of Xanten has no representation or emblems whatever of St. Gerebern, or of his companion, St. Dympna, although this fine building is covered on the interior with various old stone images, wooden figures, and pictures.

Nor does any tradition exist, to show that the remains of St. Gerebem were ever brought so near the Rhine...[12] Santen—or as more generally written at the present day Xanten—and Sonsbeck, are places very near each other, and they were formerly known as Santina antiqua.

Among the inhabitants of this latter town, a tradition prevails, that when the people of Xanten brought St. Gerebern's remains to the hill, where his chapel is now erected, those beasts yoked, to a waggon on which the saints relics were borne, could not proceed farther, through some supernatural cause.

Wherefore, the Sonsbeck people deposited St. Gerebern's remains on that elevated site, and erected their primitive church over them.