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October 9. ST. DBNYS.—Patron saint of France, beheaded with others on the hill thereafter named Mons Martyrum (Montmartre). After his death, the body of the saint rose, and with the head in its hand and accompanied by the singing of a celestial choir, walked a distance of two miles until it met with a woman named Catula, in whose hand it placed the head. The saint was venerated at St. Denys, near Lyons, by a procession usually of a turbulent and disorderly character, which on one occasion, at least, gave rise to a serious tumult, in which two hundred people are said to have lost their lives.
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Calendar of Customs and Festivals. Nature 122, 557 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122557a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122557a0