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Saint Denis
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synonyms: Dionysius, Saint Dennis, Denys ???
tags: [christianity]
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Definition:a Catholic martyr from Paris who had his head lopped off sometime before 270 AD (this type of event once occurred so frequently that a new word was required: "cephalophore"). Afterwards the saint carried his own head for ten kilometers while preaching a sermon.Catholics honor him as the saint against diabolical possession and headaches.
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A servant opened it, and the lady went in and closed the door, leaving the Sieur de Beaune open-mouthed, stupefied, and as foolish as Monseigneur St. Denis when he was trying to pick up his head.
Honoré de Balzac. Droll Stories
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Yes, indeed, my dear host, yes, indeed!" he repeated in his ringing voice, which sounded a separate note for each syllable, in reply to a protest by M. Verdurin. "The Chronicle of Saint Denis, and the authenticity of its information is beyond question, leaves us no room for doubt on that point. Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] (1913).
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In this resolution being arrived at Paris, he went forthwith unto the house of the said Pantagruel, who was lodged in the palace of St. Denis, and was then walking in the garden thereof with Panurge, philosophizing after the fashion of the Peripatetics.
Rabelais. Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Charles: No longer on Saint Denis will we cry / But Joan de Pucelle shall be France’s saint.
William Shakespeare. The First Part of Henry the Sixth
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King Henry: Shall not thou and I, between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a boy, half French, half English, that shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard? Shall we not? What say’st thou, my fair flower-de-luce?
William Shakespeare. The Life of Henry the Fifth
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He is no more cousin unto me,
Than is the leaf that hangeth on the tree;
I call him so, by Saint Denis of France,
To have the more cause of acquaintance
Of you, which I have loved specially
Aboven alle women sickerly,
Chaucer. Canterbury Tales: The Shipman's Tale
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and S. Vincent de Paul and S. Martin of Todi and S. Martin of Tours and S. Alfred and S. Joseph and S. Denis and S. Cornelius and S. Leopold
James Joyce. Ulysses
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