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<p> <b> [[Dionysia]] (3) </b> , St., a [[Christian]] martyr in the 5th cent. According to the narrative of [[Victor]] Vitensis, her contemporary, she was a lady of rare beauty in Africa, who preferred tortures, shameful indignities, and death to renouncing her faith; a victim of the persecution of the orthodox or [[Catholic]] [[Christians]] by Hunneric, king of the Vandals. The date assigned for her martyrdom is 484. </p> <p> See Victor Vitensis, <i> de Persecutione Africanâ </i> , V. c. 1; <i> ap. </i> Migne, <i> Patr. Lat. </i> lvii.; Tillem., <i> Mémoires </i> , t. xvi. (Paris, 1701, 4to); Baronius, <i> Annales Ecclesiastici </i> , t. viii. p. 463 (Lucae, 1741, fol.). </p> <p> [I.G.S.] </p> | <p> <b> [[Dionysia]] (3) </b> , St., a [[Christian]] martyr in the 5th cent. According to the narrative of [[Victor]] Vitensis, her contemporary, she was a lady of rare beauty in Africa, who preferred tortures, shameful indignities, and death to renouncing her faith; a victim of the persecution of the orthodox or [[Catholic]] [[Christians]] by Hunneric, king of the Vandals. The date assigned for her martyrdom is 484. </p> <p> See Victor Vitensis, <i> de Persecutione Africanâ </i> , V. c. 1; <i> ap. </i> Migne, <i> Patr. Lat. </i> lvii.; Tillem., <i> Mémoires </i> , t. xvi. (Paris, 1701, 4to); Baronius, <i> Annales Ecclesiastici </i> , t. viii. p. 463 (Lucae, 1741, fol.). </p> <p> [I.G.S.] </p> | ||
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A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography [1]
Dionysia (3) , St., a Christian martyr in the 5th cent. According to the narrative of Victor Vitensis, her contemporary, she was a lady of rare beauty in Africa, who preferred tortures, shameful indignities, and death to renouncing her faith; a victim of the persecution of the orthodox or Catholic Christians by Hunneric, king of the Vandals. The date assigned for her martyrdom is 484.
See Victor Vitensis, de Persecutione Africanâ , V. c. 1; ap. Migne, Patr. Lat. lvii.; Tillem., Mémoires , t. xvi. (Paris, 1701, 4to); Baronius, Annales Ecclesiastici , t. viii. p. 463 (Lucae, 1741, fol.).
[I.G.S.]
