What is "areopagite"

Usage examples of "areopagite".

The feast of Saint Barnabas, the 11th of June, was chosen for the translation of the relics of Dionysius the Areopagite from the crypt where they had rested for so many years to the new reliquary tomb in the choir.

Dionysms the Areopagite, the emperor, graciously recalling the Greek origin of this saint, sent a chorus of Greek priests, and the Franks were entranced not merely by their vestments and painted tapers, but by their dramatic genuflections and the ensemble of bass and treble voices.

He wrote against the belief in the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite, which was one of the fixed positions of theology, then and long after.

Dionysius the Areopagite on the other, suggesting that they have a common pattern in mind.

It is said that a sparrow pursued by a hawk took refuge in the bosom of a member of the sovereign assembly of Athens, and that the harsh Areopagite threw the trembling bird from him with such violence that it was killed on the spot.

Christianized body,-- men living in the light of nature, of reason,--that they immediately expelled the brutal Areopagite from his seat, and from the association of humane legislators.

Apostles, the authenticity of the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite and of the letter of Christ to King Abgarus, preserved and credited by Eusebius.

Though in some respects he was under the fantastic notions of the Areopagite, in others his interpretation was rational, free and undogmatic.

Denys was a great saint, since there was no doubt of his being in very deed the Areopagite himself.

Born a Jew, he had renounced his religion and became a Greek Sophist, practised law at Scio, and heard Paul at Mars Hill, where, with Dionysius the Areopagite, with whom he was visiting, he was converted.

Surprised we are also that an Areopagite should put his son to death for putting out the eyes of a little bird.