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:''For the Lithuanian saint, see Eustace of Vilnius.'' :''For the abbot of Luxeuil, see Eustace of Luxeuil.'' Saint Eustace, also known as Eustachius or Eustathius in Latin or St. Esthak in India, is revered as a Christian martyr and soldier saint. Legend places him in the 2nd century AD. A martyr of that name is venerated as a saint in the Anglican Church. He is commemorated by the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church on September 20. == Biography == According to legend,〔Eustace's ''Vita'' is edited in the ''Acta Sanctorum'', September 6:124.〕 prior to his conversion to Christianity, Eustace was a Roman general named Placidus, who served the emperor Trajan. While hunting a stag in Tivoli near Rome, Placidus saw a vision of a crucifix lodged between the stag's antlers.〔The image of the crucifix lodged between the antlers of a stag and its justification in a hunting episode were later transferred to the hagiography of Saint Hubertus (first Bishop of Liège).〕 He was immediately converted, had himself and his family baptized, and changed his name to Eustace (Greek: Ευστάθιος (''Eustáthios''), "well stable", or Ευστάχιος (''Eustáchios''), "fruitful/rich grain"). A series of calamities followed to test his faith: his wealth was stolen; his servants died of a plague; when the family took a sea-voyage, the ship's captain kidnapped Eustace's wife Theopista; and as Eustace crossed a river with his two sons Agapius and Theopistus, the children were taken away by a wolf and a lion. Like Job, Eustace lamented but did not lose his faith. He was then quickly restored to his former prestige and reunited with his family. There is a tradition that when he demonstrated his new faith by refusing to make a pagan sacrifice, the emperor Hadrian condemned Eustace, his wife, and his sons to be roasted to death inside a bronze statue of a bull or an ox,〔("Saints & Martyrs", Columbia University )〕 in the year AD 118. However, the Catholic Church rejects this story as "completely false" 〔"Martyrologium Romanum" (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2001 ISBN 88-209-7210-7)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saint Eustace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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