Born in Palestine in the year 100, Justin Martyr was raised as a pagan. His heart yearned to answer the big questions about life and he became a philosopher and studied Plato, seeking to know and understand the truth. He was drawn to Christianity by witnessing the faith and heroism of the Christian martyrs, and he began reading what he called the “Memoirs of the Apostles”, which we now know as the Gospels. He converted to Christianity and became an apologist for the Christian faith, taking the philosophical principles he learned and applying them to Christianity. He set up a school for public debate in Rome, and for promoting and defending the Christian faith he was beheaded by the Romans in the year 165.
CHALLENGE
Three written works of St. Justin Martyr have survived, and they show that the faith that the Church Fathers celebrated in the 1st and 2nd Centuries is the same Catholic faith we celebrate today. So today, grow in your understanding of the roots of the Catholic Church by reading Justin Martyr’s First Apology.
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