(Latin: devout)
Reigned c.142to c154Born in Italy. The fact that Saint Justin expounded Christian teaching in Rome, and that the three heretics Valentinus, Cerdon, and Marcion visited there, prove the primacy of the see in this century. Feast, Roman Calendar, July 11,.
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