Saint Justin Martyr

Justin was a professional philosopher who, after searching through the Greek schools, found in Christianity the truth he had been seeking — and kept the philosopher’s cloak to teach it as the “true philosophy.” The first great Christian thinker to engage the pagan world on its own ground, he held that the seeds of the divine Word had been scattered among all people, so that whatever the philosophers had said truly belonged by right to Christ. He was beheaded at Rome about the year 165, and has been known ever since as Justin Martyr.