ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 10th of November
SAINT JUSTUS, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR
St Justus was a Roman by birth, and a learned and virtuous monk of St Gregory’s monastery, by whom he was sent into England in 601, to assist St Austin [Augustine of Canterbury] in preaching the faith there.
In 604, he was consecrated the first bishop of Rochester, and in 624, upon the death of St Mellitus, translated to the archiepiscopal see of Canterbury.
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
Pope Boniface accompanied the pall which he sent him, with a letter in which he admired the fruit of his labours, in the great number of souls which he had initiated in the faithful service of God; and extolled his patience and zeal, exhorting him to persevere to the end, lest he should lose his crown.
THE FRUIT OF HIS LABOURS
St Justus ordained St Romanus his successor at Rochester, and St Paulinus the first archbishop of York, and went to receive his reward at the hands of the Prince of pastors on November 10, 627.
He was interred with his two predecessors, and is named on this day in the Roman and English Martyrologies.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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