Justinian

Saint Justinian of Limoges is venerated in the Catholic Church as a saint of the third century, an infant who died four days after his birth.

His story is still wrapped in legend and is found only in an appendix to a Latin manuscript in Paris. His parents, Anianus and Justa, were pagans and had no children. Martial, bishop of Limoges, converted and baptized them and promised them an heir. When the child was about to be born, the parents set out to bring the news to the bishop; on the road to Angoulême, by the Charente, the infant came into the world. He was carried to Martial and baptized by him, then died on the way back, at the very place of his birth, at the age of four days.

The miracles that legend attributes to his intercession won him the veneration of the faithful. At Limoges his commemoration is kept on 16 July. He is honoured locally, as a saint of the undivided Church, without synodal canonization.