Sts. Aureus and Justina

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June 15 · Bishop, Martyr, Virgin

Sts. Aureus and Justina

Sts. Aureus and Justina

Traditional feast

June 15
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

June 16
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Bishop
Martyr
Virgin

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on June 15 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Inserted in the Mainz (Calendar in the 15th cent, now in the Modem Roman Martyrology. Authority: — Sigehard the monk, in 1298. On what authority Sigehard relied we do not know.] S. Aureus, bishop of Mainz, his deacon Justin, and his sister Justina, are said to have been killed by the Arian Huns. The relics have been translated to Heilgenstadt

Feast days

Feast: June 16
Traditional: June 15

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Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Aureus and Justina's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

Image: Aureus von Mainz.png · Velopilger · CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: Velopilger, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.