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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Dionysius, bishop of Rome, ob. c. 268

Saint ID

S00542

Reported Death Not Before

266

Reported Death Not After

268

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00683The Notitia ecclesiarum urbis Romae, a guide to saints' graves around Rome, lists those on the via Appia, south of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 625/649.
E01051The Depositio Episcoporum, a list of the burials of the bishops of Rome deceased between 255 and 352, gives both the day of the year and the place of their burial; from the so-called Chronography of 354, compiled in Latin in Rome, c. 354.
E01099The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Dionysius (bishop of Rome, S00542), states that he was buried in the cemetery of Callixtus on the via Appia outside Rome, on 27 December [c. AD 268].
E04951The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 14 September.
E05065The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 26 December.
E07892The Itinerarium Malmesburiense, a guide to saints' graves around and within Rome, lists those outside the porta Appia on the via Appia, south of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 642/683.