Subj : September 2nd - St. Justus of Lyons To : All From : rich Date : Sat Sep 01 2018 10:06:59 From: rich September 2nd - St. Justus of Lyons, Bishop and Recluse Memorial 2 September 14 October At Lyons in France, the translation of St. Justus, bishop and confessor, and Viator, his servant, Justus was born in the Vivarais, and whilst he served the church of Vienne as deacon he was advanced to the see of Lyons. His zeal made him severe in reproving everything that deserved reproof, and his attachment to discipline and good order was displayed at the Synod of Valence in the year 374. A council being assembled at Aquileia in 381, St. Justus with two other bishops from Gaul assisted at it. The chief affairs there debated regarded the Arians, and St. Ambrose, who was present, procured the deposition of two Arian bishops. He had a particular respect for St. Justus, as appears from two letters which he addressed to him concerning certain biblical questions. It happened that at Lyons a man, who had stabbed some persons in the street, took sanctuary in the church; and St Justus delivered him into the hands of the magistrate's officer upon a promise that the prisoner's life should be spared. Notwithstanding this he was dispatched by the populace. The good bishop was apprehensive that he had been accessory to his death and was by that disqualified for the ministry of the altar. Having long desired to serve God in retirement, it is said that he made use of this as a pretext to resign the pastoral charge. The opposition of his flock seemed an obstacle, but his journey to Aquileia afforded him an opportunity. On his return he stole from his friends in the night, and at Marseilles took ship with a lector of his church, named Viator, and sailed to Alexandria. He lived unknown in a monastery in Egypt, until he was discovered by one who came from Gaul to visit the monasteries in the Thebaid, and the church of Lyons sent a priest called Antiochus to urge him to return but he was not to be prevailed upon. Antiochus (who succeeded Justus in his see and is himself venerated as a saint, on October 15) determined to bear him company in his solitude, and the saint shortly after died in his arms about the year 390. His body was soon after translated to Lyons and buried in the church of the Macchabees which afterwards bore his name. His minister St. Viator survived him only a few weeks, and is named in the Roman Martyrology on October 21, and the translation of their bodies together on September 2. Alban Butler states that the village of Saint Just in Cornwall takes its name from Justus of Lyons. This seems to be a guess, and a poor one--there are two Cornish Saint Justus one in Roseland and another in Penwith, but their eponyms have not been identified. An early Latin life of St. Justus is printed in the Acts Sanctorum, September, vol. i (under September 2), and there seems no reason to doubt that it is in the main reliable. The fact that Justus is mentioned on five different days in the Hieronymianum (see CMH., pp. 566-567) may be taken as satisfactory proof of the interest which his cultus inspired. Sidonius Apollinaris in a letter gives a description of the enthusiasm with which crowds flocked to the shrine on his feast-day. Consult also Duchesne, Pastes Episcopaux, vol. ii, p. i6z Coville, Recherches sur l'histoire d Lyon (1928), pp. 441-445 and Leclercq, DAC., vol. X, Cc. 191-193. Saint Quote: No greater pride is there than judging others, nor is there anything for which God abandons man, more than for judging others. Everywhere in the Scriptures God tells us clearly not to judge others, but rather ourselves. Likewise spiritual writers condemn this fault of judging others with so many examples that the day would sooner be over than we could relate just a few of them. Take this thought for a conclusion: the beginning of the ruin of the spiritual life is judging others. --Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria from a sermon Bible Quote: Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for, when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised to them that love him. [James 1:12] DRB <><><><> --We must always pray, and not faint.--Luke 18:1 [3] Souls that have no habit of prayer are like a lame and paralytic body, which, though it has hands and feet, cannot use them. Therefore, to abandon prayer seems to me the same thing as to lose the straight road; for as prayer is the gate through which all the graces of God come to us, when this is closed, I do not know how we can have any. --St. Teresa St. Teresa proved this by her own experience; for having abandoned prayer for some time, she began to fall into certain faults and defects from which, though they were slight, she could not free herself; rather, she went daily from bad to worse. She was herself obliged to say that she was on the road to perdition, to which the Lord told her she would have come, if she had not resumed prayer. ( "A Year with the Saints". September: Prayer --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .