3 Quotes About St Deni

St. Denis (or San Domingo de la Cruz) is the patron saint of Paris. Devotion to St. Denis is one of the oldest traditions in the city, dating back to the Middle Ages when many churches were named for this saint Read more

As far back as the 11th century, churches in Paris had altars dedicated to St. Denis, and his relics were venerated there. He became more widely known in France under Philip II of France (1179-1223), who granted him the right to be called "patron saint of France." A popular legend associated with St.

Denis is that he was born in a stable, but when he was found by a bishop and brought up as a Christian, he didn't want to leave this place, so he remained there in the stable until he died in a nearby church in 1666.

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Fusing the doctrines of Plotinus and Proclus with the creeds and beliefs of Christianity, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite combined the Neo-Platonic conviction of the fundamental oneness and luminous aliveness of the world with the Christian dogmas of the triune God, original sin and redemption. The universe is created, animated and unified by the perpetual self-realization of what Plotinus had called "the One, " what the Bible had called "the Lord, " and what he calls "the superessential Light. Erwin Panofsky
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Reform or no reform, he never ceased to promote the interests of St. Denis and the Royal House of France with the same naive, and in his case not entirely unjustified, conviction of their identity with those of the nation and with the Will of God as a modern oil or steel magnate may promote legislation favorable to his company and to his bank as something beneficial to the welfare of this country and to the progress of mankind. Erwin Panofsky