Case file · Apparition / miracle
Saint Denis carries his head
In 835, abbot Hilduin of Saint-Denis wrote that the martyred first bishop of Paris picked up his severed head on Montmartre and walked, preaching, to his burial place.
835 CE · 48.94, 2.36 · status: legend
The account
Hilduin also merged Denis with Dionysius the Areopagite. The 'cephalophore' saint became one of France's most famous images.