During his second missionary journey, Paul found himself in Athens. He was aghast over the idol worship he noticed in the city and began to preach at the synagogue and Public Square. Various people ...

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. St. Dionysius the Areopagite. 20th c. mosaic, Athens. How did the learned Athenian Dionysius, who is mentioned in today’s reading from ...

Today the Church celebrates the memory of St. Dionysios the Areopagite, one of the few Athenians who responded to the apostle Paul’s speech on the Areopagus, and became a Christian. A remarkable ...

We do not know who was the first Christian convert in Athens (“Three days, 3,000 years”, Travel, June 11/12). The Book of Acts records, “some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the ...

Pope Benedict dedicated his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square to the teachings of the figure Pseudo-Dionysius, the Aeropagite, who is “a greater mediator in the modern dialogue between ...