Justus of Urgell

GIUSTO di URGEL. — Flourished around 546 and was a prominent figure at the Councils of Lerida and Valenza of 546. According to the testimony of s. Isidoro, he wrote an Expositio in Cantica Canticorum, a brief allegorical work in which, from the very first lines, Christ appears as the Bridegroom and the Church as the Bride.

BIBL.: S. Isidoro, De vir. ill., cap. 34; PL 67, 961–94; P. B. Gams, Die Kirchengeschichte vom Spanien, II, 1, Ratisbona 1868, p. 440 ff. Giuseppe Madoz
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“GIUSTO DI URGEL.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), p. 524. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/giusto-di-urgel.