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<p> '''''dı̄''''' -'''''ō̇''''' -'''''nish´i''''' -'''''us''''' ( Διονύσιος , <i> '''''Dionúsios''''' </i> , surnamed "the Areopagite"): One of the few [[Athenians]] converted by [[Paul]] (Acts 17:34 ). We know nothing further about him (see [[Areopagus]] ). According to one account he was the first bishop of the church at Athens; according to another he suffered martyrdom in that city under Domitian. We are even told that he migrated to [[Rome]] and was sent to Paris, where he was beheaded on Montmartre (Mount of the Martyr). The patron saint of [[France]] is Denys; compare the French "Denys d'Halicarnasse" (Dionysius of Halicarnassus). The mystical writings which were circulated in the [[Middle]] [[Ages]] and are still extant, are pronounced by the best authorities to be forgeries, and date from a period not earlier than the 5th century. </p>

<p> bishop of Corinth, A.D. 170, of whom little now is known, appears to have been in considerable repute in the days of Eusebius, for eight epistles which he had written: </p> <p> 1, to the Lacedaemonians; </p> <p> 2, to the Athenians; </p> <p> 3, to the believers of Nicomedia, the capital of Bithynia; </p> <p> 4, to the [[Church]] at Gortyna, and the other churches of Crete; </p> <p> 5, to the Church in Amastris, together with those throughout Pontus; </p> <p> 6, to the Gnossians; </p> <p> 7, to the Romans </p> <p> 8; to Chrysophora, an eminent [[Christian]] matron. </p> <p> These are all lost except a few fragments preserved by Eusebius; Hist. Eccl. 4:23, and 2:25. See extracts from these fragments in Lardner, Works (ed. Kippis), 2:144 sq. The Fragmenta are given in Gallandii Bibl. Patr. 1:675, and in Routh, Reliquiae Sacrae (Oxon. 1814), 1:163 sq. See Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca, 4:408; 12:175 (ed. Harles); Ceillier, Hist. Gin. d. auteurs sacres (Paris, 1865), 1:461. </p>