with all his household to the holy baptism,
and was baptized, and followed Paul
three years together whithersoever he journeyed,
and deeply received the divine lore from him,
until the holy apostle consecrated him as bishop
of the Athenian city where he was born,
and bade him preach boldly the faith,
and the holy gospel to the heathen nations.
Dionysius then continued, deeply learned,
in the aforesaid city at his episcopal see,
and diligently preached God's lore to the people of the land
to whom he was before a leader in their unbelief.
So he converted the citizens to God,
and the most part of the men to the faith,
and wrote many books concerning the true faith,
and concerning the orders of angels with wondrous reasoning,
and sent the books to other bishops,
those whom Paul had consecrated and the holy John.
One of these was called Titus, another Timotheus,
another Polycarp, and several others.
Likewise to John, the holy evangelist,
he sent wiitings when he (John) was in exile
in the island of Patmos, when the wicked emperor
Domitian adjudged him thither.
Then Dionysius comforted him by prophesying,
and said that he knew it certainly, through God,
that John should return from that island
back to the land of Asia, even as it befell afterward,
and there write a gospel, even as was done thereafter.
Then Dionysius journeyed through many cities in every direction,
and through the land, boldly preaching the faith,
and greatly converted men to God,
and healed the infirm in the Saviour's name,
