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The glossator on the Calendar of Oengus says of him : — 

 " The Deacon Justinus, i.e. Deaon Just, of Fidarta. It was he 

 who baptised Ciaran of Cluain (Clonmacnois), and of France was 

 he, ut qnidem putant." But against this hesitating opinion we 

 may set his recorded pedigree. It is, however, very probable 

 that he went to Gaul for his ecclesiastical ediication. It is 

 possible enough that there may have been two of the same name, 

 and at the same period, one at Fidarta, and the other at 

 Ardbraccan ; but it is more likely that, as Just had a roving 

 commission, he founded both these churches. 



Fidarta, where S. Patrick placed him, at all events for a time, 

 IS Fuertj, in Roscommon, which was in the old territory of the 

 Hy Many. 8. Patrick left his book of ritual and of baptism 

 with him. He was the preceptor of Kieran of Saighir, and in 

 his old age he baptised the other Kieran, the wheelwright's son. 

 Unfortunately no life of this saint has been preserved. Although 

 known as Patrick's Deacon, there is no reason to suppose that 

 he was not advancod later to priest's orders. 



William of Worcester calls S. Just a martyr, but this is 

 because the true S. Just of Penwith had been supplanted by a 

 namesake who did suffer for the faith, and who was in the Poman 

 Calendar. At S. Just, the feast varies from October 30 to 

 November 8. 



The rule seems to be that its observance is guided by the 

 Sunday preceding the nearest Wednesday in November, which 

 will give seven clear Sundays to Christmas. 



Just or Justin, Patrick's Deacon, is commemorated in the 

 Irish Calendars on May 5. 



There is a Just or Justin given on September 2, in the ancient 

 Breviary of the Abbey of S. Melanius of Eennes, where he was 

 supposed to have been a bishop, but this was mere conjecture. 

 The only Just whose day falls between October 30 and November 

 8, in the Roman Martyrology, is an obscure martyr at Trieste, on 

 November 2. 



If Just, Patrick's Deacon, had died in Ireland, it is probable 

 that Irish records would have given us more information concern- 

 ing him. 



