Justus 16425 226158458 2008-07-17T02:19:07Z Ealdgyth 4497767 Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/208.51.186.146|208.51.186.146]] ([[User talk:208.51.186.146|talk]]) to last version by MattieTK {{Infobox Archbishop of Canterbury| | Full name = St Justus | | image = [[Image:Justusdetail.JPG|center|220px]] | caption = Detail of a statue of Justus. Interior of [[Rochester Cathedral]]. | birth_name = | consecration = 624 | term_end = on [[10 November]] between 627 to 631 | predecessor = [[Mellitus]] | successor = [[Saint Honorius]] | birth_date = | death_date =on [[10 November]] between 627 to 631 | tomb = St Peter's Porch, Canterbury Cathedral<ref name=SocJust>[http://justus.anglican.org/justus-bio.html The Society of Archbishop Justus Article on St Justus] accessed on September 6, 2007</ref>}} {{Infobox Saint Archbishop of Canterbury |name=St Justus |feast_day=[[November 10]] |venerated_in= [[Eastern Orthodox Church]], [[Roman Catholic Church]], [[Anglican Communion]] |titles= |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes=archbishop carrying a Primatial cross<ref name=PatSaintInd>[http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintjgo.htm Patron Saints Index: St. Justus of Canterbury] accessed on November 3, 2007</ref> |patronage=Volterra, Italy |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= }} {{otheruses}} '''Saint Justus''' (d. [[10 November]] between 627 to 631), was the fourth [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]. ==Life== He was a [[Rome|Roman]] by birth, and was one of the missionaries sent to [[England]], by [[Pope Gregory II]], either at the request of [[Augustine of Canterbury|St. Augustine of Canterbury]] in 601.<ref name=Bede85>[[Bede]] ''A History of the English Church and People'' translated by Leo Sherley-Price London:Penguin Books 1988 ISBN 0-14-044042-9' p. 85</ref><ref name=DictSaint>Delaney, John J. ''Dictionary of Saints'' Second Edition Doubleday: New York 2003 ISBN 0-385-13594-7 p. 354-355</ref><ref name=DNB>Hunt, William "Justus [St Justus] (d. 627x31)" rev. N. P. Brooks, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' Oxford University Press, 2004; [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15176 online edn, Oct 2005] accessed November 7, 2007]</ref><ref name=ASE109>[[Frank Stenton|Stenton, F. M.]] ''Anglo-Saxon England'' Third Edition Oxford:Oxford University Press 1971 ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5 p. 109</ref> or possibly one of the original missionaries that arrived with Augustine in 597.<ref name=Hindley65>Hindley, Geoffrey ''A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The beginnings of the English nation'' New York: Carrol & Graf Publishers 2006 ISBN 978-0-78671738-5 p. 65</ref> He was consecrated [[Bishop|bishop]] by Saint Augustine in 604, with a province to include the [[Kingdom of Kent|Kentish]] city [[Rochester, Kent|Rochester]],<ref name=Bede104>[[Bede]] ''A History of the English Church and People'' translated by Leo Sherley-Price London:Penguin Books 1988 ISBN 0-14-044042-9 p. 104</ref><ref name=Brooks11>{{cite book |author=Brooks, Nicholas |title=The Early History of the Church of Canterbury: Christ Church from 597 to 1066 |publisher=Leicester University Press |location=London |year=1984 |isbn=0-7185-0041-5 |pages=p. 11}}</ref> which made him the first [[Bishop of Rochester]].<ref name=Handbook221>{{cite book |author=Fryde, E. B. |coauthors=Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third Edition, revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X |pages=p. 221}}</ref> While he was bishop, Justus and [[Mellitus]] subscribed a letter that Laurence wrote to the Celtic bishops urging the Celtic Church to adopt the Roman method of calculating the date of [[Easter]].<ref name=ASE112>[[Frank Stenton|Stenton, F. M.]] ''Anglo-Saxon England'' Third Edition Oxford:Oxford University Press 1971 ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5 p. 112</ref> When persecution broke out after the death of [[King Aethelbert of Kent]], he fled to [[Gaul]];<ref name=Bede109>[[Bede]] ''A History of the English Church and People'' translated by Leo Sherley-Price London:Penguin Books 1988 ISBN 0-14-044042-9 p. 109-112</ref> but a year later he was reinstated in his bishopric,<ref name=Walsh348>Walsh, Michael ''A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West'' London: Burns & Oates 2007 ISBN 0-8601-2438-X p. 348</ref> which he governed with diligence and care until, in 624,<ref name=Handbook221/> he became [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], receiving the pallium from [[Pope Boniface V]]. He consecrated [[Romanus (bishop)|Romanus]] as his successor as bishop of Rochester.<ref name=DNB/> In 614 he attended the Council of Paris, held by [[Chlothar II]].<ref name=Wood>{{cite journal |last=Wood |first=Ian |title=The Mission of Augustine of Canterbury to the English |journal=[[Speculum]] |volume=69 |issue=1 |pages=1–17 |url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0038-7134(199401)69%3A1%3C1%3ATMOAOC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A |month=Jan |year=1994 |doi=10.2307/2864782 }}</ref> The most notable event of his brief archiepiscopate was the evangelization of [[Northumbria]]. [[Paulinus of York|Paulinus]] was consecrated by Justus to be the first [[bishop of York]]<ref name=DictSaint/> and within two years, King [[Edwin of Northumbria]] was baptised, with many of his people, in a little church which Paulinus had built at York, near where [[York Minster]] now stands. The news of Edwin's conversion was conveyed to Justus not long before his death, which is believed to have taken place on [[November 10]] between 627 to 631.<ref name=Handbook213>{{cite book |author=Fryde, E. B. |coauthors=Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third Edition, revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X |pages=p. 213}}</ref> The modern [[Society of Archbishop Justus]] is named after Justus.<ref name=SocJust/> He was regarded as a saint following his death, and his feast day is [[November 10]].<ref name=DictSaint/> ==Memory== One of the guilds at Bennett Memorial Diocesan School was named after him by Lady Bennett. ==References== {{reflist|2}} ==External links== * [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4148 Catholic Online Saints and Angels: St Justus of Canterbury] * [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08586a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia St Justus] * [http://www.pase.ac.uk/pase/apps/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?personKey=1718 Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England Justus of Canterbury entry] {{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{s-bef | before=(diocese created)}} {{s-ttl| title=[[Bishop of Rochester]] || years=604&ndash;624}} {{s-aft| after=[[Romanus (bishop)|Romanus]] }} {{s-bef | before=[[Mellitus]] }} {{s-ttl| title=[[Archbishop of Canterbury]] | years=624&ndash;c.627}} {{s-aft| after=[[Saint Honorius]] }} {{end}} {{Persondata |NAME=Justus |ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Justus of Canterbury |SHORT DESCRIPTION=Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishop of Rochester |DATE OF BIRTH= |PLACE OF BIRTH= |DATE OF DEATH=November 10, 627X631 |PLACE OF DEATH= }} {{Archbishops of Canterbury}} {{portalpar|Saints|Gloriole.svg}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Justus}} [[Category:People from Rome (city)]] [[Category:Anglo-Saxon saints]] [[Category:Archbishops of Canterbury]] [[Category:Bishops of Rochester]] [[Category:7th century archbishops]] [[Category:7th century deaths]] [[Category:7th century Christian saints]] [[de:Justus von Canterbury]] [[fr:Juste de Cantorbéry]] [[it:San Giusto]] [[no:Justus av Canterbury]] [[pl:Justus z Canterbury]]