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St. Dionysius and Companions, and St. Evaristus. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Dionysius, Bishop, and Companions,
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# Martyrs (Oct 9) — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/10-09.txt is a
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# different, later saint (St. John Leonardi, canonized 1938) who
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# displaced Dionysius on the general calendar's own Oct 9 slot; his
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# content survives at the suffixed sibling file (see memory
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# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-09t.txt, English/Sancti/10-09t.txt.
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# Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper text, one continuous vita
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# account, no internal break, combined into a single reading. No
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# responsory given.
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id: ss-dionysius-and-companions
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readings:
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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text:
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la: >-
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Dionysius Atheniensis, unus ex Areopagitis judicibus, vir fuit omni doctrinæ genere
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instinctus. Qui cum adhuc in Gentilitatis errore versaretur, eo die quo Christus Dominus
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cruci affixus est, solem præter naturam defecisse animadvertens, exclamasse traditur: Aut
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Deus naturæ patitur, aut mundi machina dissolvetur. Sed cum Paulus Apostolus veniens Athenas,
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et in Areopagum ductus, rationem reddidisset ejus doctrinæ quam prædicabat, affirmans
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Christum Dominum resurrexisse, et mortuos omnes in vitam redituros esse: cum alii multi, tum
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ipse Dionysius in Christum credidit.
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Itaque et baptizatus est ab Apostolo, et Atheniensium ecclesiæ præfectus. Qui cum postea
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Romam venisset, a Clemente Pontifice missus est in Galliam prædicandi Evangelii causa. Quem
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Lutétiam usque Parisiorum Rusticus presbyter, et Eleutherius diaconus prosecuti sunt: ubi a
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Fescennio præfecto, quod multos ad christianam religionem convertisset, ipse cum sociis
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virgis cæsus est: cumque in prædicatione christianæ fidei constantissime perseveraret, in
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craticulam subjecto igne injicitur, multisque præterea suppliciis una cum sociis cruciatur.
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Sed ea tormentorum genera omnibus forti ac libenti animo perferentibus Dionysius annum agens
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supra centesimum, cum reliquis securi percutitur septimo Idus Octobris. De quo illud memoriæ
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proditum est, abscissum suum caput sustulisse, et progressum ad duo millia passuum in manibus
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gestasse. Libros scripsit admirabiles, ac plane cælestes, de divinis nominibus, de cælesti et
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ecclesiastica hierarchia, de mystica theologia, et alios quosdam.
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en: >-
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Denis was an Athenian, one of the Judges of the Court of the Areopagus, and a man of varied
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and deep learning. There is a story concerning him that on the day when the Lord Christ was
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nailed to the Cross, and when he saw the unnatural eclipse of the sun, Denis said: Either the
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God of nature is suffering, or the frame-work of the world is breaking up. When the Apostle
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Paul came to Athens, and was taken and brought unto the Areopagus, and gave an account of the
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faith which he preached, affirming that Christ had risen from the dead, and that all the dead
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likewise are to live again, some mocked, and others said: We will hear thee again of this
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matter. So Paul departed from among them. Howbeit, certain men clave unto him, and believed;
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among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite.
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Denis was baptized by the Apostle, and set over the Church of the Athenians. He came
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afterwards to Rome, and was sent by Pope Clement into Gaul, to preach the Gospel. There
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followed him to Paris one Rusticus a Priest, and Eleutherius a Deacon. He turned many to
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Christ, and was therefore beaten with rods by command of Fescennius the Prefect, and,
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forasmuch as he still went on bravely preaching Christ, he was tortured with fire upon a
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grating, and put to diverse other torments, and his comrades likewise.
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They bore their torments bravely and cheerfully, and then Denis, being over an hundred years
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of age, and his two comrades with him, suffered by the axe. This is that Denis concerning
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whom the old story is told that after his head was cut off he took it in his hands and
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walked two thousand paces, carrying it all the while. He was the author of some marvellous
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books, clear proofs of a mind fixed in heaven, upon The Names of God, upon The Orders in
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Heaven and in the Church, upon The Mystic Theology, and diverse others.
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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