The Daughters of Germaine have posted a new page about the Seers of Germaine. You can see it at their website, here.
1848 - 1888 Victoria Bradford
Victoria Bradford 
became the first recipient of the gift of Germaine. Victoria was born in 1848, only two years after little Germaine died. When she was three years old, Victoria told her father that he should not go to market that day. She said, “If you go, Daddy, the pigs will die.” Unfortunately, her father did not heed his daughter’s warning. A terrible landslide buried the herd of pigs he was taking to market and his own life was saved only by chance itself.
The story rapidly spread throughout our little community. It was reported in the newspaper. Germaine Van Bibber’s mother went to visit the little Victoria and declared that she was strongly reminded of Germaine in the child’s presence and felt there was some kind of connection between Victoria and Germaine. “I would not say,” Mrs Van Bibber stated, “that Victoria is Germaine. That would be sacriligious. A blasphemy. I would say that my beloved daughter seems to be speaking to her. Almost as if she were a saint and little Victoria, still so young, innocent and pure, receives her words as if from heaven.”
As Victoria Bradford continued to speak as an oracle for her family and then for the community, it became clear to the women that something extraordinary was indeed taking place. In the interest of Victoria’s soul, the women created a society dedicated to guiding the child and cleaving her soul to God. They regarded themselves as true daughters of their community and also as mothers of Victoria. Together, they were sisters.
Thus began the society, the sorority, if you will, that is today known as The Daughters of Germaine. It is dedicated to nurturing each seer of Germaine, and to guiding the community in its journey along the path little Germaine Van Bibber so eloquently described on her deathbed as mortality shook her tender limbs and the vision of heaven descended upon her.
Victoria Bradford married late and bore her only child at the age of 40 and died only one month later, never having fully recovered from the difficult delivery.
