😇 Today, June 1st, we celebrate the feast of St. Justin Martyr. Pray for us. 🙏 He was tortured and beheaded for refusing to renounce his faith in Christ. "We are slain with the sword, but we increase and multiply; the more we are persecuted and destroyed, the more are deaf to our numbers. As a vine, by being pruned and cut close, shoots forth new suckers, and bears a greater abundance of fruit; so is it with us," said St. Justin Martyr.