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Justin Martyr, one of the Church\u2019s earliest apologists (and a key witness in my own reversion to the Church), was killed by the Romans around 165 AD. Until recently, the oldest copy of any of his works that we\u2019ve had available to us was one dated to 1364\u2014but now they\u2019ve found one more than 1000 years older. Tom McDonald has the details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justin Martyr, one of the Church\u2019s earliest apologists (and a key witness in my own reversion to the Church), was killed by the Romans around 165 AD. Until recently, the oldest copy of any of his works that we\u2019ve had available to us was one dated to 1364\u2014but now they\u2019ve found one more than 1000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-to-this-and-that","tag-church-fathers"],"yoast_head":"\nJustin Martyr<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Justin Martyr, one of the Church's earliest apologists (and a key witness in my own reversion to the Church), was killed by the Romans around 165 AD.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/crywoof\/2013\/11\/justin-martyr\/\" \/>\n<meta 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