Denis
3rd-century Bishop of Paris and saint · Religious Figures · Lived 201 to 250 · aged 49
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Something wrong?He's venerated as the patron saint of France and Paris, but Denis is best remembered for what came after his execution: according to legend, the decapitated 3rd-century bishop picked up his severed head and walked several miles preaching repentance.
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About this person
Denis served as bishop of Paris - then called Lutetia - in the third century, when professing Christianity could cost you your life. Around AD 250, likely during Emperor Decius's persecution, he and two companions, Rusticus and Eleutherius, were martyred by beheading. The story that grew around his death made him Christianity's most famous cephalophore: a saint who carried his own head. A local Christian woman built a chapel where he was buried. That chapel became an abbey, then a basilica, and eventually the center of Saint-Denis, now a suburb folded into the edges of Paris. He was later named one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, a group of saints invoked against specific afflictions.
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