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Dionysius Exiguus, the surname EXIGUUS, or “The Little”, adopted probably in self-depreciation and not because he was small of stature, flourished in the earlier part of the sixth century, dying before the year 544.
According to his friend and fellow-student, Cassiodorus (De divinis Lectionibus, c. xxiii), though by birth a Scythian, he was in character a true Roman and thorough Catholic, most learned in both tongues—i.e. Greek and Latin—and an accomplished Scripturist.
Dionysius invented the Anno Domini count (AD) by establishing a new Easter calculation, which he dedicated in to a historically unidentified Bishop.Much of his life was spent in Rome, where he governed a monastery as abbot. His industry was very great and he did good service in translating standard works from Greek into Latin, principally the “Life of St. Pachomius”, the “Instruction of St.
Proclus of Constantinople” for the Armenians, the “De opificio hominis” of St. Gregory of Nyssa, the history of the discovery of the head of St. John the Baptist. The translation of St.
