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Dionysius Exiguus
[eg-zig-yoo-uhs, ek-sig-]
noun
died a.d. 556?, Scythian monk, chronologist, and scholar: devised the current system of reckoning the Christian era.
Dionysius Exiguus
/ ɛɡˈɪɡʊə /
noun
died ?556 ad , Scythian monk and scholar, who is believed to have introduced the current method of reckoning dates on the basis of the Christian era
Example Sentences
Dionysius Exiguus was one of these monks.
The world of Dionysius Exiguus, Boethius, and Bede was dark indeed.
In 525, a monk named Dionysius Exiguus wanted to pinpoint the date for Easter.
One of the early writers to date this way was Dionysius Exiguus, a monk who, in 525 A.D., was intent on working out when exactly Easter would occur in the coming years.
According to the Pope, Christ was born years earlier than Dionysius Exiguus - Dennis the Small in English - had thought.
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