# Dionysius Areopagita, Who Was Converted By Paul, Martyred For Confessing Jesus Christ, About The Year 112.

c. 112 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITA, WHO WAS CONVERTED BY PAUL, MARTYRED FOR CONFESSING JESUS CHRIST, ABOUT THE YEAR 112.

Source heading; not independently verified

We read in the Acts of the Apostles, chap. 17,
verse 34, that among those who clave unto the
doctrine of Paul, there was also Dionysius, one of
the Athenian council, and a woman named Damaris.

It is testified of this Dionysius, surnamed the
Areopagite, that he so increased in the Christian
religion, that Paul afterwards appointed him bishop
at Athens; yet, that finally, after having made a
most glorious confession of faith, and suffered many
severe torments, he was crowned, as a victorious
hero of Jesus Christ, with the martyrs’ crown, when
he had got to be a very old man, and had commended
his spirit into the hands of his heavenly
Father. He now accomplished what he was wont
to frequently repeat in his life: “The last words of
my Lord Jesus, while on the cross, shall also be my
last words in this temporal life, namely: ‘Father,
into thy hands I commend my spirit.’ ” Thereupon
he was put to death, and thus fell asleep happy
in the Lord. Compare A. Mell., 1st book of the
Histor. der vervolg. en Mart., printed A. D. 1619.,
fol. 26, col. 2, from Adone in Martyrol. ex Arist.
lib. de Relig. Christ and Suida in Dion. Areopag.
and Seger., in Chron. 10. Strac. in Pass, Part.
S. Homil. 2, with W. Baudart, in Apophthegm
Christian, 1st book 7th edition, A. D. 1640, p. 17,
on the name Dionysius Areopagita.

Note.—Touching the manner of the death, or
martyrdom, of Dionysius the Areopagite, we find
nothing stated in ancient, trustworthy writers; hence
we have said nothing about it, though some have
written, that he was beheaded at Paris; for which
statement we let them be responsible, since their
accounts of this event differ in regard to the manner
in which, as well as the time when, it is said to have
occurred. See in the above-mentioned Apophthegm
Baudartii.





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