Justi'nus
3. Of SICILY, bishop of one of the sees in that island in the latter part of the fifth century.
He was present at a council held at Rome A. D. 483 or 484, under Pope Felix III., in which Petrus Fullo
Γναφεὺς), or Peter the Fuller, patriarch of Antioch, was condemned as a heretic, for having added to the " trisagion" the heretical words " who suffered for us." Several bishops, among whom was Justin, desirous of recalling Peter from his errors, addressed letters to him.
Letter of Peter Fuller to Justinus
Editions
The letter of Peter, in the original Greek, with a Latin version,
Epistola Justini Episcopi in Sicilia, ad Petrum Fullone s.
Cnapheum, is given in the
Concilia (vol. iv. col. 1103, &c., ed. Labbe; vol. ii. col. 839, ed. Hardouin; vol. vii. col. 1115, ed. Mansi.)
The genuineness of this letter, and of six others of similar character, from various Eastern or Western bishops, which are also given in the
Concilia, is disputed by Valesius (
Observat. Eccles. ad Evagrium Libri duo, Lib. I.
De Petro Antiochen. Episcop. 100.4); but defended by Cave (
Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. 458), who, however, contends that the Greek text is not the original, but a version from the Latin. Pagi (
Critice in Baronii Annales, ad ann. 485, 100.15) proposes to correct the reading of the title of Justin's letter from
Episcopi in Sicilia, to
Episcopi in Cilicia; others would read the name
Justinianus, but on what authority we do not know.
Works
Dodwell and others ascribe to this Justin the
Responsiones ad Orthodoxos, and the
Expositio Rectae Confessionis, reputed to be by Justin Martyr.
Editions
These are printed with the works of Justin Martyr. [No. 1.]
Further Information
Cave,
l.c.; Mongitor.
Biblioth. Sicula, vol. i. p. 417, &c.; Fabric.
Bibl. Gr. vol. vii. p. 53; vol. xi. p. 661; vol. xii. p. 655.
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