Baring-Gould’s sources: Whitford, in his Anglican Martyrology. Venerated anciently in Gower on this day. Authority: — A life by John of Tynemouth, written in the 14th cent.J Stinan or Justinian was born of noble parentage in Lesser Brittany, and after having spent his youth in the study of learning, he was ordained priest, and then left his country. After wandering for awhile, he came to the coast of Wales, and landed in the island of Ramsey, where he led a religious life in company with Honorius, the son of King Thefriauc. This was by the express wish of Honorius. Justinian consented on condition that Honorius should order his sister and her handmaid not to sleep under the same roof as the two hermits. So the unfortunate women were inhospitably dismissed to the mainland, to follow an eremitical life elsewhere.

S. David heard of the hermits, and sent to Justinian [Byzantine emperor 527–565] to bid him come to him that he might see him. Justinian obeyed, and the bishop was so pleased with him, that he gave him the island and some ground on the mainland for his use and that of the disciples who had begun to congregate about him.

Having reproved three of these men, who served him, for their idleness, they were so incensed against him that they threw him down and cut off his head. A fountain is said to have bubbled up where he fell, The legend says that J ustinian rose, took his head in his hands, went down to the sea shore, and walked over the sea to the headland of Pembroke opposite his island, and fell down where now stands the church of Stinan in the parish of S, David’s, Pembrokeshire.