Come and join us as we celebrate the feast of Saint Denis, who was sent over from Italy to convert pagan Gaul with five other bishops. He was very successful in his mission, and established a Christian centre on an island in the Seine. However, he and his companions Rusticus and Eleutherius were beheaded under the persecution of the emperor Decius shortly after AD 250. An abbey and basilica were established at the site of his burial, around which grew the city of Saint-Denis which is now a suburb of Paris.