ON ST. JUSTUS,
CONFESSOR OF TRIER.
From Molanus and the Offices of that church.
CommentaryJustus, Confessor, at Trier (S.)
J. B. S.
Whom in the first, and that by far the more excellent, edition of Usuard, Molanus had neglected or been ignorant of, in his later ones he inserted as a certain Saint of Trier: At Trier, of St. Justus the confessor; received, doubtless, from the manuscript Florarium of the Saints, so many times cited by us, and to be further cited, since no one before him, no one after him, has mentioned that Justus of Trier, not even the fuller Cologne codices, nor the Martyrology of St. Martin of Trier itself, although augmented with not a few local and Belgian Saints: nor from elsewhere could Molanus have dug him up; nor was it permitted to find any of the more recent ones, except Galesinius, who might imitate Molanus in this, Castellanus acknowledging no Justus of Trier. How much trouble the various Justuses of today have caused us, is sufficiently clear from what has been said: this one I would have joined to the others among the Passed Over, had not the authority especially moved me of a certain Lectionary of Trier, published in the year 1645, and elsewhere more than once mentioned, in whose Calendar at July 14, after St. Bonaventure, it is expressly set down, At Trier, of St. Justus the confessor of Trier, and again in the order itself, and on the same day, Of Justus the confessor of Trier. Lesson III from the Common. Vague enough, I confess, but certainly testimonies of some received veneration, by which I judge a cult, at least of some kind, is proved; however much for the rest the people of Trier
themselves sufficiently show that the age and deeds of their own Saint Justus, whoever he may have been, are utterly obliterated.