Dionysius the Areopagite, hieromartyr

Dionysius the Areopagite - Athenian thinker, Christian saint. According to church tradition, Dionysius the Areopagite was a disciple of ap. Paul and the first bishop of Athens. According to the life, he was sent by the apostle Clement at the head of the mission of preachers to Gaul, where he died from the persecution of Domitian in about 96.