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Denis (DENYS ST den- first Bishop)

or DENYS, ST. (den-ē'), first Bishop of Paris, in the 3d century. He was sent from Rome, about A. D. 250, to convert the pagans of Gaul. He built many churches, and selected Paris as the seat of his bishopric. During the persecution of the Christians under Aupersecution relian, he was condemned to death by the Roman governor Pescennius, and beheaded in 272.