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Baptismal Regeneration
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On Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter, a reading from the first apology in defense of the Christians by Saint Justin, martyr.
Saint Justin, known posthumously as Justin Martyr was a theologian, apologist, and martyr in the second century. He was born around A.D. 90–100 into a Greek family, in the city known today as Nablus near the ancient biblical city of Shechem, in Samaria, Palestine.
Most of his works are lost but two apologies and a dialogue did survive. The first apology, his most well-known text, passionately defends the morality of Christian life and provides various ethical and philosophical arguments to convince the Roman emperor, Antonius, to abandon the persecution of the Church. Further, he also indicates, as Saint Augustine would later, regarding the “ true religion” that predated Christianity, that the “seeds of Christianity” actually predated Christ’s incarnation. This notion allows him to claim many historical Greek philosophers (including Socrates and Plato) in whose works he well studied, as unknowing Christians.
Saint Justin was martyred, along with some of his students, and his venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church, The Eastern Orthodox Church, The Oriental, Orthodox Churches, Lutheran churches, and Anglicanism.
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