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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.
This J. _may_ be one of the several martyrs of this name listed without geographic specification in the (pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology under various dates in November. But his cult is almost exclusively Tergestine and seemingly not attested documentarily before the tenth century. At some time between the ninth century and the early eleventh 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.
The Italia nell'Arte Medievale page on Trieste's cathedral of San Giusto (most views expandable):
http://tinyurl.com/yptush
Other views (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://tinyurl.com/342cmu
Roman funerary stelae next to the main entrance:
http://www.photoroma.com/foto.php?City=ts&ID1=35&ID2=0
J.'s statue on the belltower:
http://tinyurl.com/22fo4q
Other views (interior):
http://tinyurl.com/2qfl9w
http://tinyurl.com/2s8x2y
An early twentieth-century appreciation of this church is here:
http://www.istrianet.org/istria/literature/travel/1900s_trieste-pola1.htm
Koseč in Slovenia's Julian Alps is close enough to Trieste to make it very likely that its cerkev Svetega Justa honors the same saint:
http://www.turizem-kranjc.si/Slike/cerkevKosec.jpg
http://www.turizem-kranjc.si/Slike/oltar2.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
(last year's post revised)
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