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Venerable

Just

A saint honored in Cornwall, patron of the town of St Just.

Feast
August 12old style August 25
Era
unknown
Place
St Just

Life

Saint Just (Ust, Justus) was a hermit of Cornwall after whom the town of St Just, a few miles from Penzance, is named. He is the patron of that town.

Our sources do not say when he lived and preserve no account of his life. He is commemorated on 12 August as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day August 12