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Saint Justin knows how to talk about the greatness of the Christian Faith and how to compare it with all the different ways of thinking and ideologies fashionable in his day: For, he points out, nobody believes Socrates to the point of giving his life for his teaching. However, not only philosophers and men of learning, but lowly workers and totally uneducated men and women have believed in Christ. Such people have taken no notice of the opinion of the world at large. They have scorned fear and even death itself. Justin himself was later to die giving witness to his faith. God asks us to be every bit as steadfast as he was, whatever our condition in life, even if we sometimes find ourselves in an environment that is completely opposed to Christ’s teaching.
Saint Justin was born in the region of Samaria at the beginning of the second century. Like some other thinkers of his day he opened a school of Philosophy in Rome. After his conversion he carried out an effective apostolate from the school. He defended the Christian Faith with his knowledge in times that were difficult for Christianity. The Apologia addressed to the Emperors Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius have been preserved. He died a martyr in Rome during the persecution of the latter Emperor. Because of the effort he made to defend the Faith with his learning and with his knowledge, and for the exemplary value this has for everyone, Leo XIII extended his liturgical feast to the universal Church.
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