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DENIS (DIoNysms), SAINT

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DENIS (DIoNysms), See also:SAINT , first See also:bishop of See also:Paris, See also:patron saint of See also:France. According to See also:Gregory of See also:Tours (Hist. See also:Franc. i. 30), he was sent into See also:Gaul at the See also:time of the See also:emperor See also:Decius. He suffered martyrdom at the See also:village of Catulliacus, the See also:modern St Denis. His See also:tomb was situated by the See also:side of the See also:Roman road, where See also:rose the priory of St-Denis-de-l'Estree, which existed until the 18th See also:century. In the 5th century the See also:clergy of the See also:diocese of Paris built a See also:basilica over the tomb. About 625 Dagobert, son of See also:Lothair II., founded in See also:honour of St Denis, at some distance from the basilica, the monastery where the greater number of the See also:kings of France have been buried. The festival of St Denis is celebrated on the 9th of See also:October. With his name are already associated in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum the See also:priest Rusticus and the See also:deacon See also:Eleutherius. Other traditions—of no value—are connected with the name of St Denis. A false See also:interpretation of Gregory of Tours, apparently dating from 724, represented St Denis as having received his See also:mission from See also:Pope See also:Clement, and as having suffered martyrdom under See also:Domitian (81-96).

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abbot of St-Denis in the first See also:half of the 9th century, identified Denis of Paris with Denis (See also:Dionysius) the Areopagite (mentioned in Acts xviii. 34), bishop of See also:Athens (See also:Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. M. 4. 10, iv. 23.3), and naturally attributed to him the celebrated writings of the pseudo-Areopagite. St Denis is generally represented carrying his See also:head in his hands. See Acta Sanctorum, Octobris, iv. 696-987; Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca, p. 37 (See also:Brussels, 1895); Bibliotheca hagiographica See also:latina, No. 2171-2203 (Brussels, 1899) ; J.

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Havet, See also:Les Origines de Saint-Denis, in his collected See also:works, i. 191-246 (Paris, 1896) ; Cahier, Caracleristiques See also:des See also:saints, p. 761 (Paris, 1867). (H.

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