Denis of Paris

The current Archbishop is André Cardinal XXIII.

The first Bishop of Paris was Saint Denis, and Cardinal XXIII is the 140th.

This is where we find the High Altar, where the Bishop celebrates the Eucharist, the central mystery of Christian life, the remembrance of the death and resurrection of Christ.

It's also a meeting place for the faithful to assemble.

For more than 20 centuries, people have been praying in this place.

Before the present Notre Dame Cathedral, first a Gallo-Roman temple, then a Christian church, and then a cathedral all stood here.

The spread of Christianity in the Paris region goes back to the middle of the 3rd century AD, and was carried out by Saint Denis and his fellow priests.

After the conversion of the Roman Emperor Constantine, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

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So I came across this Saint, Saint Dennis, and his deal was that he was he was sentenced to a beheading.

So he was beheading.

But then legend says that after he was beheaded, witnesses claim that the saint picked up his head and walked a few miles while preaching a sermon.

Love a good ongoing motif.

And I fell down an interesting rabbit hole on Reddit on RxCatholic because one guy was posting about how he had a crisis of faith based entirely on the fact that he couldn't believe that St. Denis had actually done all that.

So everything else he was like, OK, you know, I can be Catholic.

Everything else kind of makes sense.

Diocletian

... was, see, now I'm learning, was, uh, the Bishop of Paris by the name of St. Denis, or Saint Denis.

Saint Denis.

And-

... and off with their head is right, so they beheaded him.

And one of those fun stories of Catholicism, fun stories that, that you don't usually get in, uh-

... or anywhere.