Denis of Paris
Patronage | Paris; against frenzy, strife, headaches, hydrophobia, San Dionisio (Parañaque), possessed people |
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Denis of Paris was a 3rd-century
Denis is the most famous
Name
The medieval and modern
Life
, away from the river.Martyrdom
Denis and his companions were so effective in converting people that the
Veneration
Veneration of Denis began soon after his death. The bodies of Denis, Eleutherius, and Rusticus were buried on the spot of their martyrdom, where the construction of the
Her Vita Sanctae Genovefae attests the presence of a shrine near the present basilica by the close of the fifth century.Dagobert I, great-grandson of Chlothar I, had the first Royal Basilica built. The Merovingian tradition was, originally, to bury kings such as Clovis and Chlothildis in Paris at Abbey St-Genevieve/Genovefa, as Clovis had ordered its construction in 502 AD. Yet Chilperic I had his own mother, Dowager Queen Aregunda, buried at Saint-Denis. His grandson was clearly following a family tradition. Aregunda's (death about 580 AD) tomb was discovered in 1959, and her burial items can be seen at the Saint-Germain-en-Laye museum. A successor church was erected by Fulrad, who became abbot in 749/50 and was closely linked with the accession of the Carolingians to the Merovingian throne.
In time, St Denis came to be regarded as the
In traditional Catholic practice, Saint Denis is honoured as one of the
Feast
9 October is celebrated as the feast of Saint Denis and companions, a priest named Rusticus and a
Saint Denis is also remembered with a commemoration[12] in many Anglican Provinces, including the Church of England[13] and the Anglican Church of Canada,[14] on October 9.
Confusion with Dionysius the Areopagite
Since at least the ninth century, the legends of
Depiction in art
Denis' headless walk has led to his being depicted in art decapitated and dressed as a
Throughout much of the Middle Ages, the Abbey of St Denis and the
A 1317 illustrated manuscript depicting The Life of Saint Denis, once owned by
See also
- Peter, Andrew, Paul, and Denise
- Saint Denis, patron saint archive
References
Citations
- ^ a b "St. Denis and Companions". Saint of the Day. Archived from the original on 2005-04-22. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
- ^ a b Jones, Terry. "Denis". Patron Saints Index. Archived from the original on 2007-01-07. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
- ^ "Beatus Dionysius Parisiorum episcopus diversis pro Christi nomine adfectus poenis praesentem vitam gladio immente finivit." "History of the Franks I," 30.
- ^ ISBN 971-91595-4-5.
- ^ a b "St. Denis". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. Robert Appleton Company. 1908. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
- ^ "Légende Montmartre". www.montmartre.fr. Archived from the original on 2010-01-13. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
- Viollet-le-Duc's restorations (illustration, in infobox).
- ^ a b c d Vadnal, Jane (June 1998). "Images of Medieval Art and Architecture: Saint Denis". Excerpt from "Sacred and Legendary Art" by Anna Jameson, 1911. Archived from the original on 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
- ^ Baynes (1878).
- ^ Suger, "De rebus in administratione sua gestis," xxxi, and "De Consecratione," v.
- ^ Miller, Jennifer. "Fourteen Holy Helpers". Retrieved 2007-01-16.
- ^ "The Calendar". The Church of England. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
- ^ "Holy Days". The Church of England. 7 October 2017.
- ^ "The Calendar". 16 October 2013. Archived from the original on 22 October 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- Pope Clement I in the earliest Vita of St Genevieve (chapter 17, MGH, SS rer. Merov. 3, 222).
- ^ "Georgii Pachymerae... Paraphrasis in decem Epistolas B. Dionysii Arepagitae"; see Beatrice Beech, "Charlotte Guillard: A Sixteenth-Century Business Woman," Renaissance Quarterly No. 36, 3 (Autumn 1983:345–367) p. 349.
- ^ See Gabriel Spiegel, The Cult of St Denis and Capetian Kingship, in Saints and their Cults, Stephen Wilson (ed), 1985. p.144ff
- ^ Whatling, Stuart. "Photographs of Le Mans Cathedral—Outer Clerestory Windows—Bay 111, Panel B5". Corpus Narratologica. Retrieved 2009-06-15.
- ^ "Life of Saint Denis". employees.oneonta.edu.
Bibliography
- Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. VII (9th ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 79. .
- Delehaye, Hippolyte (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). pp. 21–22.
Further reading
- Drinkwater, J.F. (1987). The Gallic Empire : separatism and continuity in the north-western provinces of the Roman Empire, CE 260-274. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden. ISBN 3-515-04806-5.
- Gregory of Tours (1988). Glory of the martyrs. Raymond Van Dam, trans. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0-85323-236-9.
- Lacaze, Charlotte (1979). The "Vie de Saint Denis" Manuscript. New York: Garland.
- Van Dam, Raymond (1985). Leadership and community in late antique Gaul. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-05162-9.
External links
- Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Denis
- St. Denis and Companions provides information about their feast on 9 October
- Saint Denis at the Christian Iconography website
- Here Followeth the Life of St. Denis in Caxton's translation of the Golden Legend