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9 October.   1662 Book of Common Prayer:   Denys, Martyr & 3 rd Century Missionary Bishop of Paris Wiki-offerings. According to Christian tradition, Saint Denis (also called Dionysius , Dennis , or Denys ) is a Christian martyr and saint . In the third century, he was Bishop of Paris . He was martyred in connection with the Decian persecution of Christians , shortly after 250 AD. Denis is said to have picked his head up after being decapitated , walked ten kilometres (six miles), and preached a sermon the entire way, making him one of many cephalophores in hagiology . He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as patron of Paris, France, and as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers . The medieval and modern French name "Denis" derives from the ancient name Dionysius . Contents   ·                   1 Life o           ...

9 October.   1662 Book of Common Prayer:   Denys, Martyr & 3 rd Century Missionary Bishop of Paris Editors. “Saint Denis.”   Encyclopedia Britannica.   N.d.   http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/157713/Saint-Denis .   Accessed 27 May 2014. Saint Denis ,   Denis also spelled Denys, Latin Dionysius    (born ,  Rome ?—died 258?, Paris; feast day: Western church, October 9; Eastern church, October 3), allegedly first bishop of Paris, a martyr and a patron saint of France . According to St. Gregory of Tours’s 6th-century Historia Francorum , Denis was one of seven bishops sent to Gaul to convert the people in the reign of the Roman emperor Decius. Little is known of his life; it is believed that he was martyred during the persecution of Christians by the Roman emperor Decius in 251 or Valerian in 258. In the 7th century his relics, which had been founded shortly before by the Merovingian king Dagobert I, were...