San Dionigi (or St. Dionysius; Italy ... - Lutetia; 270) Roman bishop; the first in the city of Lutetia; Paris today; in Roman Gaul. The Catholic Church venerates him as a saint; martyr and patron saint of Paris and the Seine-Saint-Denis. He died by decapitation after being subjected to torture on the rack; and according to the cult walked; holding the severed head in his hands; to the place of burial. Here were built after the church and then the Abbey of Saint Denis. Festival on October 9. Promotional sticker for the 'peptone iron Robin'; chromolithograph; nineteenth-century France