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Today (2. November) is the feast day of:
Justus of Trieste (d. ca. 304, supposedly). According to his very legendary Passio (BHL 4604), J. was a Christian of Aquileia, devoted to acts of penitence and of almsgiving and executed during the Great Persecution by being thrown into the upper Adriatic with lead weights affixed to his hands and feet. His body is said to have been washed up at Trieste, where a priest who had been alerted by a vision discovered it and, together with the faithful of that city, buried it in a safe place.
J. _may_ be one of the several martyrs of this name listed in the (pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology without geographic specification under various dates in November. But his cult is exclusively or almost exclusively Tergestine and, it is said, not attested documentarily before 1040. At some time between the ninth and the early eleventh century a basilica dedicated to him arose next to Trieste's then cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. In the late twelfth century that cathedral, which had been rebuilt, received an apse mosaic in which J. is prominently figured on one side. At or shortly after the end of the thirteenth century the two churches were combined into the present cathedral dedicated to J. and a large belltower was added.
Some views of Trieste's cathedral of San Giusto:
Exterior:
http://www.milossaluciano.com/san%20giusto%20aerea.jpg
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/d2623/
http://www.italiantourism.com/fotoenit/prew_2100000077120.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Triestecathedral2.jpg
http://www.carbonaio.it/immagini%20trieste%20-%20san%20giusto%208.htm
http://www.carbonaio.it/immagini%20trieste%20-%20san%20giusto%209.htm
http://www.photoroma.com/foto.php?City=ts&ID1=35&ID2=0
J.'s statue on the belltower:
http://www.photoroma.com/foto.php?City=ts&ID1=33&ID2=0
http://www.photoroma.com/foto.php?City=ts&ID1=34&ID2=0
Interior (showing main altar and apse mosaic of the Coronation of the Virgin):
http://www.deagostiniedicola.it/ARTICOLI/Mercatini/mercatino-trieste/08.html
http://tinyurl.com/yzrrlz
http://tinyurl.com/ud8r2
Interior showing altar of St. Justus and apse mosaic above it:
http://dalemcdonald.com/Italy/Trieste_pages/SanGiusto4.htm
http://dalemcdonald.com/Italy/Trieste_pages/SanGiustoAlter.htm
An early twentieth-century appreciation of this church is here:
http://www.istrianet.org/istria/literature/travel/1900s_trieste-pola1.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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