DEDICATION TO THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH

Founded in 1964, our suburban Philadelphia parish of approximately 400 families honors St. Justin Martyr, one of the more important Fathers of the Church of the second century.  Completed in 1971, the Church of St. Justin Martyr, while not officially designated a shrine, is dedicated to all the Fathers of the Church, and its celebrated stained-glass windows and doors display images of the Fathers and bring them to life in an attractive and artistic way.

Among the Fathers were popes, bishops, priests, and layman who lived during the first eight centuries of Christianity.  Many of them died for the faith and are numbered with the illustrious martyrs of the early persecutions. 

As in the Middle Ages, the stained-glass windows and doors of St. Justin Martyr Church serve a dual purpose: to bathe the interior of the church with jewel-like color, and to educate the worshipper through examination of the iconographical images.

The interior of the church has a European feel.  It is decorated with Carrara marble and all its walls are covered with imported mosaics that also celebrate the Catholic faith and the Fathers of the Church.

WE WELCOME ALL TO OUR BEAUTIFUL CHURCH!

A limited supply of a 139-page book entitled "The Windows of the Church of Saint Justin Martyr" is available at $20 per copy.  It contains full-color photographs of the windows and an explanation of each.  Please call the rectory at 610-664-0165 to order a copy.