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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Denis |
 | | The combining of these three persons in one was doubtless effected as early as the eighth or perhaps the seventh century, but it was only through the "Areopagitica" written in 836 by Hilduin, Abbot of Saint-Denis, at the request of Louis the Pious, that this serious error took deep root. | | | On the island in the Seine Denis built a church and provided for a regular solemnization of the Divine service. | | | The Church of Gaul had suffered terribly under the persecution of the Emperor Decius and the new messengers of Faith were to endeavour to restore it to its former flourishing condition. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04721a.htm
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| | NADA-zero-infinity: Sacred Spaces: SAINT DENIS |
| | As a disciple of the theological works of St. Denis the Pseudo-Areopagite (St. Denis the Greek) who affirmed "God is Light", Suger once again declared, "Let there be Light", and the gothic cathedral was born, not as an architecture but as a theological idea. | | | Denis was also the residence of Abbot Suger, the only man ever to be entitled "Father of the Nation", an honor bestowed by Louis VII in tribute to Suger's extraordinary efforts toward a peaceful unification of France, and most especially to the new movement he ignited, the spiritual architecture that came to be called "gothic". | | | All of the churches upon which the basilique now rests were places of pilgrimage to St. Denis, the first bishop of France, the protector of the country. |
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http://www.simurgh.net/nada/space/stdenis.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite |
| | In the first place, a series of famous writings of a rather peculiar nature was ascribed to the Areopagite and, secondly, he was popularly identified with the holy martyr of Gaul, Dionysius, the first Bishop of Paris. | | | It was believed that St. Paul, who had communicated his revelations to his disciple in Athens, spoke through these writings ((Histor.-polit. | | | By "Dionysius the Areopagite" is usually understood the judge of the Areopagus who, as related in Acts, xvii, 34, was converted to Christianity by the preaching of St. Paul, and according to Dionysius of Corinth (Eusebius, Hist. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05013a.htm
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| | The Roman Martyrology - September 22 |
| | Near the city of Meaux, blessed Saintin, Bishop, a disciple of St. Denis the Areopagite, by whom he was consecrated bishop of that city and was the first to preach the Gospel there. | | | In Arpajon, St. Yon, Priest and Martyr, who went to France with St. Denis, and there, by command of the prefect Julian, was scourged and consummated a glorious martyrdom. | | | Their relics are preserved in the church of St. Marcellus. |
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http://web2.airmail.net/~carlsch/MaterDei/Martyrol/sep-22.htm
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| | Medieval Art: Text-Saints: Saint Denis |
| | The bodies of St. Denis, of St. Eleutherius, and St. Rusticus were buried afterwards on this spot, and the first person who raised a church to their honor was St. Genevive assisted by the people of Paris. | | | THE legend which confounds Dionysius the Areopagite with St. Denis of France (bishop of Paris in the third century) will not bear any critical remark or investigation ; but as it is that which presents itself everywhere in Art, I give it here as it was popularly received. | | | And Clement gave him for his companions, to aid him in his labors, a priest, whose name was Rusticus, and a deacon, who was called Eleutherius. |
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http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/medart/texts/saints/Jameson/AJ-SLA-Denis.html
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| | Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Both the spatial, material depiction of the angels in the scriptures and also the temporal, sequential images of God in the liturgy must be transcended in the ascent from the perceptible to the intelligible. | | | Presenting himself as Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of Paul mentioned in Acts 17:34, his writings had the status of apostolic authority until the 19th century when studies had shown the writings denoted a marked influence from the Athenian Neoplatonic school of Proclus and thus were probably written ca. | | | Dionysius is the author of three long treatises ( The Divine Names, The Celestial Hierarchy, and The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy) one short treatise ( The Mystical Theology) and ten letters expounding various aspects of Christian Philosophy from a mystical and Neoplatonic perspective. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/p/pseudodi.htm
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| | DENIS - LoveToKnow Article on DENIS |
| | A false interpretation of Gregory of Tours, apparently dating from 724, represented St Denis as having received his mission from Pope Clement, and as having suffered martyrdom under Domitian (8196). | | | Other traditions of no valueare connected with the name of St Denis. | | | St Denis is generally represented carrying his head in his hands. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DE/DENIS.htm
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: St. John of Damascus: Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images |
| | St Basil's brother, who is one with him in thought, St Gregory of Nyssa, shares his sentiments. | | | St Basil says, "Honouring the image leads to the prototype." If you raise churches to the saints of God, raise also their trophies. | | | St John, who rested on His breast, says, that "we shall be like to Him" (I Jn. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/johndamascus-images.html
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| | Catholic Online - Saints & Angels - Sts. Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius |
| | Later writers have referred to these as Denis' priest and deacon, or his deacon and subdeacon, but we have no further information on them. | | | Denis (or Dionysius as he is also called) is the most famous of the three. | | | Born and raised in Italy, he was sent as a missionary to Gaul (now France) circa 250 A.D. by Pope St. Clement along with five other bishops. |
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http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=42
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| | To the most reverend lord bishop of Soissons, Goslen, Suger by the patience of God abbot of St. Denis the areopagite, servant of God as best he can be, hoping to be united episcopally with the bishop of bishops. | | | I was present at this consecration and before the Lord pope I inveighed against Galon, bishop of Paris, who was pursuing various quarrels against St. Denis. | | | After celebrating Laetare Jerusalem at St. Martin's in Tours, his mitre on his head in the Roman fashion, he came to the venerable home of St. Denis, with benevolence and devotion such as would have been appropriate to the true seat of St. Peter. |
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http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/GeogHist/histories/histdocts/Biblio12/A12/AbbotSuger/louisthefat.html
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| | Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite |
| | The Hierarchy contains parts of the St John Gospel and Yves changed the date of redaction of this Gospel to preserve the legend of St Denis. | | | In 1317, the monk Yves wrote a life of St-Denis for his abbot were he still confused the Areopagite and the Bishop pf Paris. | | | In the 9th century Dionysius was confused with St. Denis of France; Vulgate of St Denis was fixed around 835 by Hilduin, abbot of St. Denis, which means the confusion already existed at this time. |
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http://www.granta.demon.co.uk/arsm/jg/psdiony.html
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| | A History of Western Philosophy 2.3 |
| | For long centuries he was believed to have been Denis or Dionysius the Areopagite, a convert of St. Paul, and the Corpus Areopagiticum received the attention and respect commensurate with that belief. | | | Those who find in Dionysius grounds for steering between the extremes of denying that we can know anything about God and claiming that God is a proportioned object of our mind would seem to be most faithful to him. | | | That our knowledge of God is, compared to its object, no knowledge at all, in the sense that we cannot comprehend him, does not mean that creation provides no indirect way to meaningful language about its cause. |
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http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/hwp203.htm
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| | The Story Of Religious Controversy: Chapter XV |
| | It was not worth while to incur the fiendish tortures of the Inquisition by examining whether St. George had really fought a dragon, or St. Denis had carried his head in his bands. | | | Fuhrer has thoroughly studied what was thought to be the sound story of St. Felicitas and her seven sons, and has shown that two quite different legends have been blended, so that the saint really only got her "seven sons" in the Middle Ages. | | | Father Thurston tells you, coldly, that all that we know about St. George, the patron of England and for ages the most popular saint in Christendom, is that he existed, and that he was martyred in or near Lydda some time before 300 A.D. What a disillusion after the old story! |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_mccabe/religious_controversy/chapter_15.html
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| | Lives of the Saints, October 9, Saint Louis Bertrand, Saint Dionysius or Denis the Areopagite |
| | The authors of the oriental church are steadfast in asserting, with Roman tradition, that it was Saint Denys the Areopagite, converted by Saint Paul, who was sent to Gaul. | | | Through him and his disciples, whom he sent to evangelize various districts, the sees of Rouen, Chartres, Evreux, Verdun, and Beauvais were established. | | | Pope Saint Clement of Rome confirmed this enterprise, and added to the group at least ten more priests, all of whom are now listed among the Saints. |
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http://www.magnificat.ca/cal/engl/10-09.htm
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| | THE CATECHISM OF TRENT: The Sacraments - Holy Orders |
| | The Church teaches that this usage is derived from Apostolic origin, as mention is made of it by the most ancient and authoritative Fathers, such as St. Denis the Areopagite, St. Augustine and St. Jerome. | | | Wherefore he is the Father and guide of all the faithful, of all the Bishops, and of all the prelates, no matter how high their power and office; and as successor of St. Peter, as true and lawful Vicar of Christ our Lord, he governs the universal Church. | | | Regarding this power numerous passages of Sacred Scripture may be adduced; but the weightiest and most striking are those which are read in St. John and St. Matthew: As the Father, says our Lord, hath sent me I also send you. |
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http://www.cin.org/users/james/ebooks/master/trent/tsacr-o.htm
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| | Catholic Argument for the Assumption of Mary into Heaven |
| | It is also found in the book De Transitu Virginis, falsely ascribed to St. Melito of Sardis, and in a spurious letter attributed to St. Denis the Areopagite. | | | The sermons of St. Jerome and St. Augustine for this feast, however, are spurious. | | | At the time of Sergius I (700) this feast was one of the principal festivities in Rome; the procession started from the church of St. Hadrian. |
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http://www.allsaintssanfran.org/Virgin%20Mary/assumption_arguments.htm
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| | Apologetics - Dogmas on Our Lady |
| | A first century work attributed to St. Denis the Areopagite entitled the " Books of Divine Names " records a funeral panegyric pronounced by a said Hierotheus, who purported that the Apostles had been divinely warned of the impending death of the Virgin Mary. | | | The doctrine of the Virgin Mary’s assumption is not contained explicitly in Scripture, but the fact that Scripture does not record an event is no absolute argument against it. | | | Belief in the Virgin Mary’s assumption can be traced back to the earliest days of the Church. |
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http://www.theworkofgod.org/Library/Apologtc/R_Haddad/4dg2Mary.htm
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| | A City of Sharp Contrast: Piety and Persecution in Paris |
| | St Denis was said to have picked up his head and to have walked to where his Basilica was later built to mark the spot where he dropped it! | | | It was near Montmartre that St Denis was beheaded at a place at which a very old chapel still exists to commemorate the martyrdom. | | | It was there that St Louis de Montfort received his priestly training before he set off to preach union with Christ through devotion to the Mother of God (the "Holy Slavery"). |
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http://www.unicorne.org/ORTHODOXY/articles/articles_b/paris.htm
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| | Catholic Encyclopedia: ANGELS |
| | The treatise "De Coelesti Hierarchia", which is ascribed to St. Denis the Areopagite, and which exercised so strong an influence upon the Scholastics, treats at great length of the hierarchies and orders of the angels. | | | Denis (De Coelesti Hierarchia, vi, vii), divides the angels into three hierarchies each of which contains three orders. | | | It is generally conceded that this work was not due to St. Denis, but must date some centuries later. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/9847/01476d.html
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| | True Devotion To The Blessed Virgin by St. Louis de Montfort |
| | So true is this that St. Denis the Areopagite tells us in his writings that when he saw her he would have taken her for a goddess, because of her incomparable beauty, had not his well-grounded faith taught him otherwise. | | | According to St. Bonaventure, all the angels in heaven unceasingly call out to her: "Holy, holy, holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God." They greet her countless times each day with the angelic greeting, "Hail, Mary", while prostrating themselves before her, begging her as a favour to honour them with one of her requests. | | | From what Jesus Christ is in regard to us we must conclude, as St. Paul says, that we belong not to ourselves but entirely to him as his members and his slaves, for he bought us at an infinite price - the shedding of his Precious Blood. |
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http://www.hismercy.ca/content/ebooks/True.Devotion.to.Mary.html
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| | MARY, AN OBJECT OF WORSHIP IN ROMAN CATHOLICISM |
| | This is so true that St. Denis the Areopagite tells us in his writings that when he saw our Blessed Lady, he would have taken her for a divinity, because of her secret charms and incomparable beauty" (p. | | | "St. Anslem, St. Bernard, St. Bernadine, St. Bonaventure say: 'All things, the Virgin included, are subject to the empire of God: behold, all things, and God included, are subject to the empire of the Virgin.'" (p. | | | I can envision a Roman Catholic priest reading the title of this tract and thinking, "There goes another one claiming that we worship Mary and that is not true!" In many authorized Roman Catholic books, it is denied that the Roman Church teaches that Mary is to be worshipped. |
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http://www.bibletalk.org/tracts/WORSHIP.html
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| | SSPXAfrica.com: Feeding the Beloved |
| | In the same way, says St. Cyril of Alexandria, as two pieces of melted wax unite together, so a soul that communicates is so thoroughly united to Jesus - that Jesus remains in it, and it in Jesus. | | | And because food becomes one thing with him who eats it, therefore our Lord would reduce himself to food, in order that, receiving him in Holy Communion, we might become of one substance with him: Take ye and eat, said Jesus; this is My body. | | | O Lord Jesus, who wouldst incorporate us in such a manner with Thy body, that we should have but one heart with Thee." |
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http://www.sspxafrica.com/documents/1999_June/Feeding_the_Beloved.htm
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| | John Scottus Eriugena |
| | The Corpus Dionysii had been given a gift to Charles the Bald's father, Louis the Pious, from the Byzantine Emperor Michael the Stammerer in 827, a gift thought appropriate possibly because of a misidentification of Pseudo-Dionysius with the patron saint of France, St. Denis. | | | A fragmentary Commentary on the Gospel of St. John ( Commentarius in Evangelium Iohannis) and a sermon ( Homilia in Johannem) on the Prologue to St John's Gospel were also written probably in the late 860s or 870s. | | | Hugh of St. Victor refers to it) but was condemned in the thirteenth century, alongside the writings of David of Dinant and Amaury of Bène, for promoting the identity of God and creation. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottus-eriugena/
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| | THE PAULINE EPISTLES |
| | The answer is, that those writings are in reality part of the great collaboration of the literary monks of the order of St. Benedict ; they have been antedated in accordance with their fabulous system, and have been ascribed to imaginary persons. | | | First Sunday in Advent: Feast of St. Agatha. | | | The same stimulus of virtue and glory stirred up John Colet, dean, as they say, of St. Paul's, to the desire of propagating good letters of that kind. |
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http://www.radikalkritik.de/pauline_epistles.htm
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| | this guided tour of the St. Denis church. | | | *Suger was the first Abbot of St. Denis Church in France, so he obviously has | | | On the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and its Art Treasures. |
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http://www.southwestern.edu/ACS/latin/team14/sources.html
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| | Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) pp.i-viii. Introduction. |
| | L'Abbé Barras, St. Denis, premier evêque de Paris, 1863. | | | There is, in the Vatican, a letter in Latin from Dionysius to St. Paul, in which he speaks of the beauty of the blessed Virgin, no doubt as seen in death. | | | In the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, there is an autobiography in Syriac, in which it is stated that when St. Paul described the Crucifixion in his speech at Athens, Dionysius sent to fetch his notes, made in Egypt, which were publicly read and found to agree with St. Paul, both as to day and hour. |
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http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/fathers/areopagite_01_intro.htm
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| | 2002-07-03 - The Sinners Make The Saints: 13 Watercolors |
| | in 250 denis, and his companions, the priest rusticus and the deacon eleutherius, were sent by pope fabian on a difficult mission in gaul. | | | gregory of tours, who wrote of st. denis in the 6th century relates a story that denis (or dionysius as he was also called) was born and raised in italy. | | | throughout the middle ages st. denis of paris was confused with st. dionysius the areopagite, and with the pseudo-dionysius, the composer of the areopagitic writings. |
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http://boar.com/paints/2002/st_denis.html
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| | AllRefer.com - Saint Denis (Saints Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | He is said to have been first bishop of Paris and to have died a martyr on Montmartre. | | | AllRefer.com - Saint Denis (Saints Biography) - Encyclopedia | | | You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Saints > Saint Denis |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/D/Denis-St.html
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| | vita identifies him as a Roman called by Pope Clement to join St. Denis in his apostolic mission to Gaul. | | | I will focus specifically on the ways in which the ties to St. Denis, often only implicit in his | | | In turn, the legend of St. Denis, special patron of the monarchy, greatly influenced the hagiography and liturgies of other French saints, inspiring both creativity and controversy. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/mvst/maa2002/Abstracts/choate_abstract.htm
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