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Icons of St. Dionysius
(Dennis),
Bishop & Martyr of Paris (2nd c.) (St. Rusticus is shown in the
manuscript illumination)
Feast:
Oct. 9
Top Icon: by the hand of
iconographer Agnes Glitchitch.
Next Image:
Unindentified iconographic illumination of St. Dionysius depositing his
head before the Christian woman Catulla. Shown to the left are his
co-martyrs Sts. Rusticus the Priest & Eleutherius the Deacon.
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Icon: manuscript illumination: Christ blesses the hierarch Dionysius.
Next
Icon: of unknown provenance
Next Image: from a manuscript
of about 1250. Christ blessing Sts. Dionysius (bishop), Rusticus
(priest) and Eleutherius (deacon), martyrs of Paris.
Beneath
is a drawing (published by Viollet-le-Duc) of the reliquary
containing the relics of Sts. Dionysius, Rusticus, & Eleutherius.
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