Sts. Dionysius, Faustus, Caius

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Sts. Dionysius

Sts. Dionysius, Faustus, Caius

Traditional feast

October 3
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

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Represents

Feast

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on October 3 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Modem Roman Martyrology with Faustus, Caius, and others. These latter are adopted from the Greek Menologies. The Roman Martyrology simply says, “ Dionysius, Faustus, Caius, Peter, Paul, and four others, who, having first suffered many things under Decius, received the palm of martyrdom under Valerian, by order of iEmilian, the governor.” But S. Dionysius, the B. of Alexandria, occurs again in the Roman Martyrology on Nov. 17, and S. Faustus again on Nov. 19, and again with Caius on Nov. 20, along with Eusebius, Chseremon, and Lucius. “ Hinc in Martyrologio Romano majorem accurationem non immerito quis forte requirat,” say the Bollandists.] N this day the Greeks commemorate S. Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria, and other Christians who suffered. By some mistake Baronius inserted these martyrs in the Roman Martyrology on this day, without knowing that Dionysius was the same as the famous Bishop of Alexandria, and thus made duplicate martyrs out of Dionysius, Faustus, and Caius. According to him they suffered at the beginning of the 4th century, whereas S. Dionysius, the bishop, certainly attained his Digitiz ed bv S. Hesychius.

Feast days

Feast: October 3

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Dionysius's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

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Sources

Credits

Image: Hosios Loukas (diakonikon, arch) - Dionysius Areopagite.jpg · AnonymousUnknown author · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: AnonymousUnknown author, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.