Faustinus and Jovita

Faustino and Jovita († 120? Brescia ) were brothers, who are venerated as a Christian martyr and saint.

Faustino and Jovita ( The latter is actually a woman's name, handed down the names form Jovinus is ) came from the legend according to the patricians of the northern Italian city of Brescia (Latin: Brixia ). The bishop of the city, Apollonius, have appointed Faustinus a priest and a deacon Jovita. They were then at the behest of the emperor Hadrian, who had resided in Brescia, arrested. They were then tortured in Brescia and then in Rome and Naples, and finally beheaded in Brescia. The Bollandists date the martyrdom to the year 120, Paul Allard takes the year 118.

Worship

In the year 225 was built in honor of the two an altar, in the year 246 followed an oratorio. The Holy Faustinus, Bishop of Brescia in the 4th century, a supposed descendant of Faustinus martyr, has compiled the Acts of the Martyrs of the brothers. The cult of relics uses in the 8th century; 806, the remains were transferred to the newly built church of St. Faustinus major. In the year 1152 the Holy own church was consecrated in which their relics were buried in 1223. Also in Bologna, Verona and Rome relics of the two saints are venerated.

Commemoration of the Saints is February 15. They are local patrons of Brescia.

Identity

Doubts about the veracity of the martyrs of history Faustinus and Jovita reported at the Jesuit Fedele Savio, who up to the very existence of the people, and the fact of martyrdom all the details that are preserved in the Acta doubts. These bear the names contradictions in: While the Passio of the 9th century. Faustina and Jovita referred to as brothers, sees the Martyrology Usuardi Jovita as a virgin. Andreas Merkt and other church historians see an identity of the two with Faustinianus and Juventia, worshiped on February 16 as a saint. In 1969, the Catholic Church both from its official calendar of saints, martyrs because their files had completely invented and Jovita treated as a deacon, even though she was a woman.