Saint-Denis

Type:	Christian cult place
Certainty:	Certain
From:	451
To:	508
Town:	Saint-Denis
Original text:	Quanta veneratione et amore dilexit Catholiacensem vicum [Catulacensem], in quo Sanctus Dionysius cum sociis suis Rustico & Eleutherio passus est et sepultus, nequaquam silendum esse arbitror. Nam feruens devotio erat ipsi Beatissimae Genoueae, ut in honorem Sancti Dionysii Episcopi et Martyris basilicam construeret
Translation text:	I cannot keep silence about her great love and veneration for Catalacus, the village where Saint Denis and his companions, Rusticus and Eleutherius, died and were buried. Blessed Genovefa's devotion was so fervent that she longed to build a basilica in honor of Saint Denis
Site:	5926
Type of Christian cult place:	Double
Date of foundation to:	500
Publications:	Heinzelmann/Poulin 1986 Prinz 1965: 167-177

Sources

Name	Title	Reference	From	To
Vita Genovefae	Vita Genovefae Virginis Parisiensis	16	515	525
Vita Genovefae	Vita Genovefae Virginis Parisiensis	17	515	525

Name	Original text
Saint-Denis	Tunc inito placito ad basilicam martyris sancti conveniunt; elevatisque pater manibus super altarium, iuravitque, filiam non esse culpabilem [...] Erant enim maiores natu et primi apud Chilpericum regem.
Saint-Denis	Post haec infantulus iunior, dum nimio labore tabescit, extinguetur. Quem cum maximo merore deducentes a Villa Brinnaco Parisius, ad basilicam sancti Dionisi sepelire mandaverunt. Chlodoberthum vero conponentes in feretro, Sessionas ad basilicam sancti Medardi duxerunt, proicientesque eo ad sanctum sepulchrum, voverunt vota pro eo; sed media nocte anilus iam et tenuis spiritum exalavit. Quem in basilica sanctorum Crispini atque Crispiniani martirum sepelierunt.