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Venerable (Monastic) · 6th century

Dionysius Exiguus

Also known as Dionysius the Humble · Denis the Little

A monk of Scythia who settled in Rome, translated many lives and canons into Latin, and devised dating from the Nativity of Christ (the A.D. era)

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Notes

Born in Scythia Minor (modern Romania)

Sources: Synaxarion