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todayAnd Thursday, June 1As per calendar year 2023 remembrance Agioi Evelpistos and Ierakos witnesses, Saint Pyrrhusfor virgin Agios Thespecios a witness, Saint Justin a witness

todayaccording to their calendar Feast the:

• optimist, optimist
• Iraks, Irakas, Gerakas
• Gerakis, Gerakina
• Pyrrhus, Pyrrhus, Pyrrha, Pyrrha
• Thespesius, Treatise, Thespesia
• Justin

Saint Justin

Justin Martyr (Justin, 100 – 165), also known as Justin the Philosopher and Justin of Caesarea, was a Christian apologist and philosopher. Converted from paganism. His works represent the earliest extant Christian apologetics of any size.

He was born in Flavian Neapolis of Samaria (modern Nablus) (ancient Shechem) in the early second century. The son of Greek-speaking Gentiles (possibly Roman pagans), he received a broad philosophical education from the schools of Stoicism, Peripateticism, Pythagoreanism, and Platonicism. He studied rhetoric and philosophy in the schools of Gaza and Athens.

His conversion to Christianity

Initially a Gentile, he later embraced Christianity fervently, after a discussion with an elder—probably in Athens around AD 135—concerning the Platonic doctrines of transmigration and the immortality of the soul. He advised him to read the books of the prophets and messengers. When he went to Rome, he delivered to the then emperor Antoninus Pius an apology for his Christian faith. There he established his own school, along with a devotional practice. His students were few, mostly from Asia Minor and especially of Phrygian origin. Among them were Tatian and possibly Irenaeus.

his martyrdom

According to Justin’s later works, he was arrested for his Christian faith and, after being tortured, beheaded around AD 165, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius. It was likely that the satirical philosopher Kreches, who witnessed the rise of Justin’s philosophical stature, contributed to his arrest. He is considered and celebrated as a saint by the Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran churches on the first of June. In Priscilla’s tomb in Rome, the inscribed tablet covering his tomb was found, with the inscription: M (artys) Christou (I) OUCTINOC.[9]

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Ἦhos d’. You are lifted up on the cross.

You have shown yourself to be a disciple of the philosophy of shining lights, the knowledge of God, and evidently arrayed against those unfavorable, for you have confessed the truth of knowledge and witnesses, by the exercise of your grace, and with whom. You always endure Christ for our souls.