Saint Justina of Mainz

Memorial

• 16 June

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Sister of Saint Aureus of Mainz. When the Huns attacked Mainz, Justina fled briefly into exile, but returned. While celebrating Mass in the cathedral, Justina, her brother and everyone else there were massacred during the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Martyr.

Died

• martyred in the cathedral of Mainz, Germany while celebrating Mass

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Representation

• being murdered with Saint Aureus of Mainz

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson