Saint Justus of Beauvais
- Memorial
- 18 October;
11 October in Zutphen, Nederlands
- Profile
- During a trip with his father to Amiens 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, 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, Nederlands and smaller locations in France, Belgium and England
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
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