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During a hunting trip, a superb deer appears to him, displaying, between its antlers, a sparkling gold cross, while a divine voice calls to him.
Placidas, Trajan's general, will then experience a dazzling conversion.
“We do not keep the Lord waiting when he knocks at your door with such brilliance and in the mode of a fabulous injunction,”
underlines the writer Philippe Le Guillou in the foreword to the beautiful book dedicated to Saint -Eustache (Editions Place des Victoires).
Placidas will be baptized under the name Eustathios (which means "well-balanced", "constant") and will experience with his wife and his two sons the fate of Christians under the empire, from persecution to his martyrdom in 118. Hadrian ordered in effect throwing away the family…
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