Saint James Vicariate For Hebrew Speaking Catholics in Israel
Feast of Saint Justin Martyr – June 1
Justin Martyr is an important Father of the Church and is from the Holy Land. His treatise "Dialogue with Trypho" is an important testimony to Jewish-Christian dialogue in the second century.
The Church remembers Saint Justin Martyr on June 1, born in 103 in Neapolis (today Nablus) in the Holy Land. He died a martyr's death in Rome in about 165, at the time of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Justin was probably of Gentile origin and received a classic training in Greek and philosophy. Having been baptized, he turned his classical training to good use in defending the Christian faith. One of his important works tells of a meeting with a Jew, Trypho, with whom he debates long and hard the interpretation of the Scriptures of Israel, trying to show that the Scriptures awaited fulfillment in Jesus Christ.
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