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Dionysius, St., the Areopagite

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E . judge of the Areopagus), according to Acts xvii. 34, a convert of St. Paul's; became bishop of Athens, and died a martyr in 95; was long regarded as the father of mysticism in the Christian Church, on the false assumption that he was the author of writings of a much later date imbued with a pantheistic idea of God and the universe.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Dionysius, St., the Areopagite'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​d/dionysius-st-the-areopagite.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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