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	Denis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Denis, also known as Denise, Dionysius, or Dennis is a Christian saint, bishop of Paris, martyr, and a patron saint of France.
		The site where he stopped preaching and actually died was made into a small shrine that developed into the Saint Denis Basilica, which became the burial place for the Kings of France.
		Denis with his inseparable companions, the priest Rusticus and the deacon Eleutherius, who were martyred with him, settled on the Ile de la Cité in the Seine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Denis

	Saint Denis Basilica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Denis' Gothic structure that we know and see today was begun in 1136 by the Abbot Suger (1081-1155), but the major construction was not completed until the end of the 13th century.
		Saint Denis is a patron saint of France and, according to legend, was the first bishop of Paris.
		The corpse of King Louis VII, who had been buried at the Abbey at Saint-Pont and whose tomb had not been touched by the revolutionaries, was brought to St. Denis and buried in the crypt.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Saint_Denis_Basilica

	Saint Denis Basilica - Simple English Wikipedia
		Saint Denis is the patron saint of France.
		Saint Denis Basilica is a famous burial place for the Kings of France.
		It is in Saint Denis, which is near Paris, France.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Denis_Basilica

	Our Patron -- ST. DENNIS CHURCH
		Denis, with his inseparable companions, the priest Rusticus and the deacon Eleutherius, arrived in the neighborhood of the present city of Paris and settled on an island in the Seine.
		St. Denis is usually represented in art with his head in his hands, because, according to the legend, after his execution the corpse rose again and carried the head for some distance.
		About the year 275 Denis and his two companions were seized and, as they perservered in their Faith, were scourged, imprisoned, racked, thrown to wild beasts, burnt at the stake and finally beheaded.
	www.stdennischurch.org /OURPARISHPATRON.htm

	The Golden Legend: The Life of Saint Denis
		Saint Austin saith in the eighth book of the City of God that Ionique is a kind of philosophers, Italian, which be towards Italy, and lonian which be of the parts of Greece, and because that Denis was a sovereign philosopher he was named Ionicus.
		And then Denis was baptized and Damaris his wife and all his meiny, and was a true christian man and was instructed and taught by Saint Paul three years, and was ordained bishop of Athens, and there was in predication, and converted that city, and great part of the region, to christian faith.
		Saint Denis Areopagite was converted to the faith of Jesu Christ of Saint Paul the apostle.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/golden289.htm

	Saint Denis[Bishop and Martyr]
		258 at Montmarte (= mount of martyrs); his corpse was thrown in the Seine, but recovered and buried later that night by his converts; relics at the monastery of Saint Denis
		Martyred in the persecutions of Valerius with Saint Rusticus and Saint Eleutherius.
		Denis with his inseparable companions, the priest Rusticus and the deacon Eleutherius, arrived in the neighbourhood of the present city of Paris and settled on the island in the Seine.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/religion/766148/posts

	Saint-Denis-Maisoncelles - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Saint Denis Maisoncelles is a commune of the département of Calvados, in the Basse-Normandie région, in France.
	education.music.us /S/Saint-Denis-Maisoncelles.htm

	NADA-zero-infinity: Sacred Spaces: SAINT DENIS
		Denis was also the residence of Abbot Suger, the only man ever to be entitled "Father of the Nation", an honor bestowed by Louis VII in tribute to Suger's extraordinary efforts toward a peaceful unification of France, and most especially to the new movement he ignited, the spiritual architecture that came to be called "gothic".
		The vibes in St. Denis' crypt chamber may be due to a natural power point or to the architectural structure of the space, or both.
		Denis (Sens, Noyon, Paris) did not achieve the volume of light and lightness in architecture of St. Denis' east.
	www.simurgh.net /nada/space/stdenis.htm

	Suger of Saint Denis
		It was also hers more indirectly because, lake other saints, Denis would not neglect to reward a favor, and thus one could expect him to intervene for king and country more enthusiastically if his church was generously endowed.
		Suger of Saint Denis: On What Was Done In His Administration
		As royal abbey, St. Denis was a symbol of royal power, and what was done to it redounded to the glory of both the monarch and Franca Thus its renovation was a political as well as an architectural and religious event.
	www.artist-at-large.com /saintdenis2.htm

	Saint Denis - Wikitravel
		Saint Denis is a suburb (banlieu) just north of Paris.
		The city grew around the Basilica of Saint Denis, where his relics are currently stored.
		The martyred saint was said to have been beheaded in Paris, yet miraculously picked up his own head, washed it and walked nearly ten kilometers north to his future namesake village.
	wikitravel.org /en/Saint_Denis

	The Destruction of the Royal Tombs in Saint Denis
		The Abbey of Saint Denis, which is located about 17 kilometres north of Paris, is the last resting place of most of the French kings and queens.
		Saint Denis was the first bishop of Lutetia (Paris).
		A royal funeral in St. Denis was out of the question: they were buried in the same cemetery as the other victims of the guillotine.
	www.xs4all.nl /~ejnoomen/story103.html

	October 9 Saint
		Denis and his companions remind us of the brave men, women and children who have gone before us.
		He was proclaimed a saint by Pope Pius XI in 1938.
		In fact, he is considered the patron saint of France.
	www.tntt.org /vni/tlieu/saints/St1009.htm

	Personalities of Louisiana: Louis Juchereau de Saint-Denis
		Saint Denis is also at Fort de la Boulaye.
		Louis Juchereau de Saint-Denis, Chevalier of the Order of St. Louis aged 70 years, is buried in the Natchitoches church.
		This year and next Saint Denis travels to Cannes Bruslies, Dauphin Island and Pensacola.
	www.enlou.com /people/stdenislj-bio.htm

	Saint-denis Basilica - Saint-Denis Hotels - France
		His own history was embellished by legends from Vth until XIVth century.The most famous being the one presenting him carrying his severed head, from Montmartre, place of his martyrdom, to Saint Denis his burial place, at the very spot where several edifices were dedicated to him from Vth until XIIIth century.
		The old Royal Abbey of St Denis has been for centuries the headlight of artistic, political and spiritual history of the Frank world.
		The One hundred years war, (against England), the religions wars (Protestants U.S., Catholics), political troubles contribute to the decline of the Royal Abbey of St Denis long before the Revolution.
	www.france-hotels.com /object.php?idContent=52

	Paris Pages Kiosque; All You Ever Wanted To Know About Saint Denis - November 1996
		Saint Genevieve, whose presence and courage routed the huns from Paris, in 475 was touched by the life of Denis and ordered a chapel to be built at his grave.
		Saint Denis, it can be verified historically, was a missionary sent by the early Christian church of Rome in 250 A.D to convert those Roman pagans who had settled Paris.
		Although the surrounding neighborhood is changing, the church remains a fitting tribute to Paris' larger-than-life hero, Saint Denis.
	www.paris.org /Kiosque/nov96/denis.html

	Architecture of Saint Denis
		This is the central nave of the Abbey Church of Saint Denis.
		This is the tympanum of the central portal on the west facade of Saint Denis.
		One thing that is unique about the transept at Saint Denis is that it is the mausoleum for all of the kings and queens of France.
	www.msu.edu /user/klosseli/architec.html

	Articles - Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis
		Denis, the first bishop of Paris and patron saint of France, was martyred around 250 and buried in the cemetery of Catolacus.
		Sainte GeneviÃ¨ve, around 475, had a small chapel erected on Denis' tomb, by then a popular destination for pilgrims.
		In the 2nd century, there was a Gallo-Roman village named Catolacus on the location that Saint-Denis occupies today.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Saint-Denis,_Seine-Saint-Denis?mySession=8c7359dc38f173556b43125188cf448d

	Catholic Online - Saints & Angels - Sts. Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius
		Denis is pictured as he was martyred -- headless (with a vine growing over the neck) and carrying his own mitred head.
		Denis' body was retrieved from the Seine by his converts and buried.
		Denis (or Dionysius as he is also called) is the most famous of the three.
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=42

	Saint Denis Basilica - Simple English Wikipedia
		Saint Denis is the patron saint of France.
		Saint Denis Basilica is a famous burial place for the Kings of France.
		It is in Saint Denis, which is near Paris, France.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Denis_Basilica (139 words)

	Saint-Denis
		King Dagobert I founded the abbey in the 7th century and built it over the tomb of St. Denis, the patron saint of France.
		The city also has a reputation for its fairs and traditional celebrations, such as those of Lendit (a medieval fair of the Paris region).
		The town gradually grew up around the abbey.
	www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/S/Saint-Denis.html (139 words)

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	Saint-Denis Basilique
		Saint-Denis is the patron saint of Paris, and you will see him being represented in statuary as carrying his mitred severed head in his hands with a vine growing over his neck.
		Although the story goes that once Saint-Denis was beheaded, he walked, with head in hand, for two miles to the site where he was buried, in actuality, his body was dumped into the Seine and later fished out by his converts and buried.
		He served alongside two men of the cloth that were believed to be his Deacons - Saint Rusticus and Saint Eleutherius - and their sole job was to convert the local Pagans to Christianity.
	www.artist-at-large.com /saintdenis.htm (139 words)

	St.-Denis Abbey
		he medieval legend of Denis or Dionysius, the patron Saint of the abbey, is a combination of the lives of three different men: a martyr bishop, an apostolic disciple, and a famous philosopher.
		A monastic community settled in Saint-Denis in the 7th century.
		In the 9th century it was declared that the three would be considered as one: Saint-Denis, the first bishop of Paris.
	ah.phpwebhosting.com /a/OUTofBFLO/fr/stdenis/hist/hist.html (139 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Saint-Pavin, Denis Sanguin de
		A Libertine in the Salons: the Poetry of Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin (1595-1670).
		The French aristocrat Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin, wrote and circulated in manuscript sophisticated and witty poems that celebrated
		Saint-Pavin was born to Marie du Mesnil and Jacques II Sanguin, Lord of Livry, who served three terms as Prévot des marchands (mayor) of Paris (1606-1612).
	www.glbtq.com /literature/saintpavin_ds.html (139 words)

	Saint Denis Maisoncelles - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia
		Saint Denis Maisoncelles is a commune; of the département; of Calvados, in the Basse-Normandie région;, in France.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /s/sa/saint_denis_maisoncelles.html (139 words)

	Denis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Denis, also known as Denys, Dionysius, or Dennis is a Christian saint, bishop of Paris, martyr, and a patron saint of France.
		Denis with his inseparable companions, the priest Rusticus and the deacon Eleutherius, who were martyred with him, settled on the Ile de la CitÃ© in the Seine.
		Gregory of Tours simply states of Denis that he was bishop of the Parisii and was martyred by being beheaded by a sword: ( Beatus Dionysius Parisiorum episcopus diversis pro Christi nomine adfectus poenis praesentem vitam gladio immente finivit, [ History of the Franks I, 30]).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Denis (139 words)

	France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2003, France's natural population growth (excluding immigration) was responsible for almost all the natural growth in European population: the population of the European Union increased by 216,000 inhabitants (without immigration), of which 211,000 was the increase in France's population alone, and 5,000 was the increase in all the other countries of the EU combined.
		France possesses a large variety of landscapes, ranging from coastal plains in the north and west, where France borders the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, to the mountain ranges in the south (the Pyrenees) and the south-east (the Alps), the latter containing the highest point in western Europe, Mont Blanc at 4810 m.
		Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the North Sea, and from the Rhine River to the Atlantic Ocean ; it is bordered by the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra, and Spain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/France (139 words)

	Saint Denis Basilica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Denis' Gothic structure that we know and see today was begun in 1136 by the Abbot Suger (1081-1155), but the major construction was not completed until the end of the 13th century.
		Saint Denis is a patron saint of France and, according to legend, was the first bishop of Paris.
		The corpse of King Louis VII, who had been buried at the Abbey at Saint-Pont and whose tomb had not been touched by the revolutionaries, was brought to St. Denis and buried in the crypt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Denis_Basilica (620 words)

	Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Denis, the first bishop of Paris and patron saint of France, was martyred around 250 and buried in the cemetery of Catolacus.
		Saint-Denis is the home of Saint Denis Basilica and was also the location of the associated monastery.
		Sainte Geneviève, around 475, had a small chapel erected on Denis' tomb, by then a popular destination for pilgrims.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint-Denis,_Seine-Saint-Denis (620 words)

	AllRefer.com - Saint-Denis, city, France, France (French Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Saint-Denis was founded early in the Christian era (presumably on the site where St. Denis fell and was buried) and grew rapidly as a place of pilgrimage.
		In 626, King Dagobert I built a Benedictine abbey near the chapel housing the tomb; this abbey became the richest and most famous in France.
		A large number of immigrants, especially Muslims from former French colonies, are concentrated there.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/StDenFr.html (620 words)

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