9 October. 1662 Book of Common Prayer: Denys, Martyr & 3rd Century Missionary Bishop of Paris
9 October. 1662 Book of Common Prayer: Denys, Martyr & 3rd Century Missionary Bishop of Paris
St. Denys, Bishop, the patron Saint of France, a
missionary bishop (of Paris), and a martyr in the 3rd century (about A.D. 272),
under the persecution of Aurelian. He was often confused with Dionysius the
Areopagite, the convert of St. Paul (Acts
xvii. 34), and, by tradition, the first Bishop of Athens; whose name
was made famous in the Middle Ages by the celebrated mystic work on the
"Celestial and Ecclesiastical Hierarchies," published in his name
probably in the 5th century, and translated into Latin by the celebrated John
Erigena in the 9th century. -- October 9th.
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