Patronage
2 saints are venerated as patrons of Lecturers, led by John Chrysostom (feast day September 13).
347 — 407 · Feast day: September 13
John Chrysostom — whose name means 'golden-mouthed' in Greek — was the Archbishop of Constantinople and the most celebrated preacher of the early Eastern Church, whose sermons drew ordinary citizens and whose unsparing criticism of Empress Eudoxia and corrupt clergy sent him into exile twice. He died on a forced march in 407, but his words outlasted every emperor who persecuted him.
Approx. 100 AD — Approx. 165 AD · Feast day: June 1
Justin Martyr was a pagan philosopher from Samaria who found in Christianity the only philosophy that could not be refuted — and spent the rest of his life arguing it before the Roman Empire. He wrote the first great defenses of Christian doctrine addressed directly to the emperor, then died by beheading in 165 AD when a rival philosopher denounced him to the prefect Junius Rusticus.