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The oldest preserved Latin Passion of St. Denis, known as the Gloriosae, has recently been republished byMichael Lapidge. The edition, however, is unsatisfactory, since it uses only fifteen of more than thirty-six extant manuscripts. In addition, the editor’s conclusions regarding the Passion’s date (eighth century) and origin (Aquitaine) are unconvincing. A new analysis of the text, its tradition and its reception suggests a different chronology. A first version of the Passion, now lost, must have been written as early as the late fifth or early sixth century, when the cult of Denis was developing in and around Paris. Such a text is mentioned by the author of the Life of St. Genevieve in 520. At the end of the sixth century, the text was rewritten in the form in which we know it today (BHL 2171) : it was then included in the collection of passions assembled by Bishop Ceraunus of Paris, which immediately began to circulate. The addition of Denis and his followers to the Hieronymite Martyrology dates from the same period. As the manuscript tradition demonstrates, the text was established and diffused before 750 and the development and spread of legendaries.
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