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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 6671162, member: 89314&quot;]ST. JUSTINA</p><p><br /></p><p>Italy VENICE&nbsp; Leonardo Donà&nbsp; Ducato (124 Soldi)&nbsp; n.d. (1606-12)</p><p><br /></p><p>St. Justina was born in Padua (not far from Venice) to a noble family in the 1st (?) century. Her parents had converted to Christianity and, not having been had&nbsp; children up till then, received Justina in answer to their prayer. She was devoted to religion from her earliest years and ultimately took the vow of perpetual virginity. At this time arose the persecutions of the Christians by Nero and Maximian, the prefect of Padua, proved particularly brutal. As Justina would visit the prisons to comfort the Christians there, Maximian ordered her arrest.&nbsp; Brought before him, he was struck by her beauty and tried by every means to shake her constancy. However she remained firm and the prefect had her killed with a sword. The sword in her breast appears on the reverse of the coin.</p><p>Some accounts put St. Justina in the 4th century and say these events took place during Emperor Diocletian&#039;s persecution of the Christians in 304.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1269541[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1269542[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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