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Excerpt:
Christianity, for centuries, believed that a late
fifth-century theologian was, as he pretended to be, that Dionysius the
Areopagite whom Paul converted, along with the woman Damaris, at Athens
(Acts 17.22-34). The Neoplatonist Pseudo-Dionysius wrote magnificent
treatises, Julian of Norwich quoting from him three times in her
Showings. His manuscripts had been given by the Emperor Michael the
Stammerer in A.D. 827 to King Louis the Pious. John Scotus translated
them in 862, Anastasius, the papal librarian, commenting on the text in
875. Abbot Suger of St Denis (Saint Dionysius) commenced Gothic
architecture through using Dionysius' theology in stone, lead and glass...
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