Dionysius Exiguus

[eg-zig-yoo-uhs, ek-sig-]

noun

1. died a.d. 556?, Scythian monk, chronologist, and scholar: devised the current system of reckoning the Christian era.

Dionysius Exiguus

/ ɛɡˈzɪɡjʊəs /

noun

1. 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

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Dionysius Exiguus was one of these monks.

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The world of Dionysius Exiguus, Boethius, and Bede was dark indeed.

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In 525, a monk named Dionysius Exiguus wanted to pinpoint the date for Easter.

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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.

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According to the Pope, Christ was born years earlier than Dionysius Exiguus - Dennis the Small in English - had thought.

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