Justin the Confessor
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| Died | 269 Rome |
| Honored in | Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Feast | 4 August |
Justin the Confessor (died 269) was a
Life
Information regarding Justin and Crescentianus comes from the "Passion of Laurentius", in addition a Passio was written about Justin himself.
Justin the Confessor lived in the city of Rome at the time of the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. It is believed that Justin was martyred, either under Emperor Claudius II or under Emperor Valerian.
Justin was
When Emperor Valerian heard that Justin worked fearlessly as a leader of the Christians in the community, encouraging them to stand up for their Christian faith. The emperor had him arrested at a funeral and brought to him. Justin was interrogated but would not forswear his faith. Valerian then ordered Justin to be beheaded. After his execution, Justin was buried by his community on the Via Tibutina in the coemeterium of St. Cyriaca.[1]
Veneration
In the 7th century there was still a separate church nearby dedicated to Justin, but not yet rediscovered.
In 834, Archbishop Otgar of Mainz made a pilgrimage to the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. Upon his return he brought some of the relics of Justinus. He built Saint Justin's Church in Höchst to house them. Later the relics were moved in 1298 to Saint Alban's Abbey, Mainz; part of the relics, however, ended up in the monastery at the Einhard-Basilika in Seligenstadt. Since the Benedictines there were fellow caretakers of the old parish church of Wilmundsheim, which stood on what is today the graveyard lands, Saint Justin was venerated in Alzenau. The Wilmundsheim church was torn down long ago. Its successor building in present-day Alzenau has Justinus as its patron.Saint Justin's bones have never been in Alzenau.
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References
Literature
- Ekkart Sauser (2003). "Justin the Confessor". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 21. Nordhausen: Bautz. col. 739. ISBN 3-88309-110-3.
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