Just of Beauvais
Saint Just of Beauvais is a saint whose existence is known only by the legend. It belongs to the martyrs of the Gallo-Roman time and is sometimes confused with Saint Justin of Paris.
Hagiography
The tradition tells that Juste, 9 years old, was denounced like Chrétien, whereas it went to Amiens with his father, to try to save a member of their family imprisoned at the time of persecutions of Dioclétien.
It was killed while it confessed its Christian faith. When he was decapitated, Juste took its detached head of its body in its hands and continued to speak by proclaiming its faith.
Saint Juste of Beauvais belongs to this category of saints known as céphalophores , about which the head continues to speak after decapitation, such Saint Denis.
This miracle took place between Beauvais and Senlis at a place called since Saint-Just-in-Roadway.
Saint Juste of Beauvais is venerated in France in Suisse and Belgium. Its worship extended then towards the England. The town of Winchester affirms to have relics of the saint, his cranium, or a fragment of this one, since the 10th century. The diocese of Coire in Suisse would have also received relics as well as the abbey of Malmedy in Belgium.
Homonymous saint
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