A headless saint commemorated

St. Denis, pictured at the left, supposedly had his head chopped off atop Montmartre ['Martyr's mountain'] in Paris, but then walked nearly six miles to St. Denis where he finally died. Because a saint is buried here, this church is called a basilica.

Welch, Claude Emerson

State University of New York at Buffalo

2013-05

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St. Denis, near Paris

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