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- Scythian monk and scholar who introduced the method of reckoning the Christian era from the birth of Jesus.
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Towards 500 a Scythian monk, known as Dionysius Exiguus
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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CHRONOLOGY, the monk known as Dionysius Exiguus, when resident in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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This is the so-called Dionysius Exiguus, who fixed (erroneously, as it now appears) the era of the birth of Christ, and whose system of chronology founded on this event has been accepted by all the nations of Christendom.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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The wise Christian envoy passed her BC/AD system to Dionysius Exiguus in around 525 AD, who popularised it.
Archive 2008-12-01 Jack of Kent 2008
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Historians could switch to the Christian dating when Dionysius Exiguus, Bede, and others come along.
Archive 2008-12-01 Jack of Kent 2008
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Historians could switch to the Christian dating when Dionysius Exiguus, Bede, and others come along.
On BC, AD, and a Triumph of Christianity Jack of Kent 2008
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The wise Christian envoy passed her BC/AD system to Dionysius Exiguus in around 525 AD, who popularised it.
On BC, AD, and a Triumph of Christianity Jack of Kent 2008
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Dionysius Exiguus, a sixth-century canonist, developed the calendar designations A.D.
ASK TIP SHEET 2007
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Thank Dionysius Exiguus and the calendar system he defined.
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My guess is that Dan Brown's lawyer will be able to demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that the idea of Jesus having a child by this woman first appears in written form in the work of Dionysius Exiguus known to his friends as Short-arsed Denis.
More on Da Vinci Michael Allen 2004
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