Saint Justus of Beauvais

Memorial

• 18 October
• 11 October in Zutphen, Netherlands

Profile

During a trip with his father to Amiens, France to ransom or rescue an imprisoned relative during the persecutions of Diocletian, the nine-year-old Justus was denounced to pagan authorities as a Christian magician. Questioned about his faith at Beauvais, France, the boy confessed that he was a Christian; he was immediately executed. Legend says that the body then picked up the severed head and stood upright before the terrified soldiers; later retellings depict the headless boy preaching and converting the pagans.

Born

• 278 at Auxerre, France

Died

• beheaded in 285 at Beauvais, France
• majority of relics in the cathedral in Paris, but others in Zutphen, Netherlands and smaller locations in France, Belgium and England

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Justus of Beauvais”. Saints.SQPN.com. 31 December 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-justus-of-beauvais/>