![[Saint Jovita and Saint Faustinus]](saintjbj.jpg "jpg illustration of Saint Jovita and Saint Faustinus; taken from 'Pictorial Lives of the Saints', 1892, artist unknown; if you have information on this image, please email me; please do not write to ask about the image")
formerly 15 February removed from calendar and cultus suppressed in 1969
While their cultus is ancient and widespread, recent scholarship indicates that the story of Jovinus and Faustinus was a pious fiction, not a biography.
given to the lions, but they refused to touch the brothers beheaded in 120 at Brescia, Italy relics reported in Brescia, Rome, Verona, and Bologna
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate Catholic Encyclopedia For All The Saints New Catholic Dictionary Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson