Sep 062009
![[Saint Justus of Canterbury]](http://saints.sqpn.com/saintjgo.jpg "12kb jpg photograph of a statue of Saint Justus of Canterbury, Rochester Cathedral, taken in May 2006 by Polylerus; swiped off the Wikipedia web site")
Profile
Benedictine monk. Priest. Missionary to the Anglo-Saxons in 601, sent by Pope Saint Gregory the Great. Worked with Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Saint Paulinus of York, and Saint Lawrence of Canterbury. First bishop of Rochester, England in 604. In 616, the death of King Saint Ethelbert of Kent led to a resurgence of paganism; Justus and Saint Mellitus of Canterbury retreated to Gaul, but in 617 returned and resumed their work. Archbishop of Canterbury in 624.
Born
- 627 of natural causes
- buried in Saint Augustine’s abbey, Canterbury, England
- archbishop carrying a Primatial cross
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia, by Edwin Burton
- Catholic Online
- For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
MLA Citation