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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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November 19 · Martyr

St. Faustus

St. Faustus, Deac

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

November 19
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Martyr

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

Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on November 19 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Also on Oct. 4, with Caius, Eusebius, and others. Usuardus, &c. Authority: — A letter of S. Dionysius of Alexandria in Euseb. H. E. vii. 11.] Faustus, a deacon of Alexandria, accompanied S. Dionysius, the archbishop, in his exile, during the persecution of Decius. Eusebius tells us that afterwards, when Faustus was an old man, he was beheaded in the persecution of Diocletian.

Feast days

Feast: November 19

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Faustus's story, and a nudge to keep going.

Also on November 19
St. Pontianus, Pope

St. Pontianus

November 19 · Martyr
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St. Maximus

November 19 · Priest, Martyr
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St. Barlaam

November 19 · Martyr
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Sources & notes

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Credits

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.

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.