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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Justin Martyr
DESCRIPTION:ST JUSTIN MARTYR \nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints \n◊◊◊ \nJustin was a Greek from Samaria who became Christian about the year \n115. He is the first notable Christian philosopher. He was born at Nablus in \nSamaria. He was not a Jew\, either by birth or by religion. He was a Greek and \nwas given a classical Greek education. He studied rhetoric\, poetry and history\, \nand then turned to philosophy\, searching\, as he himself said\, for the “vision of \nGod”. He traveled widely\, joining philosophy schools in Ephesus and \nAlexandria\, and he was attracted to the schools of the Stoics\, the Peripatetic’s \nand the Pythagoreans. In Platonism\, he found some of the answers to the \nquestions he was asking\, and he was trained in dialectic. \nOne day while walking by the seashore\, probably at Ephesus\, he met a \nrespectable old man who told him about the Hebrew prophets and Christianity. \nJustin wrote: “My spirit was immediately set on fire\, and an affection for the \nprophets and for those who are friends of Christ took hold of me. I discovered \nthat his was the only sure and useful philosophy.” \nIn Christianity he found the answer to his search. He taught at Ephesus. \nHe debated publicly with the Jews and the Gnostics and with those who \nworshipped the Roman gods. In about the year 150 he went to Rome where he \ntaught the Christian apologetics\, founded a school of philosophy and wrote his \nmajor works. Justin wrote an intellectual defense of Christian beliefs against \noutside attacks. \nHe is said to have lived a very ascetic and austere life. His pleasure was in \npublic debates. Justin’s fearless defense of Christianity and his thorough \ndemolition of his opponents must have made him many enemies.15 \nHis martyrdom took place in the reign of Marcus Aurelius\, and an \nauthentic record of the proceedings survives. He stated his beliefs\, refused to \nsacrifice to the Roman gods\, and accepted suffering and death as the means to \nsalvation. He was beheaded with six other Christians about the year 165.
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