Saint Julian of Anazarbus

Also known as

• Julian of Antioch
• Julian of Tarsus
• Julian of Cilicia

Memorial

• 16 March
• 21 June (Orthodox calendar)
• 18 April (Armenian calendar)

Profile

Prominent citizen of senatorial rank. Arrested for his faith during the persecutions of Diocletian, he was tortured then put on display for abuse for a year in cities all over Cilicia, being led around behind a camel. Martyr. Praised by Saint John Chrysostom in a homily during the enshrinement of his relics.

Born

• Anazarbus, Cilicia (in modern Turkey)

Died

• sewn into a sack full of vipers and scorpions, and thrown into the sea to drown c.302
• relics enshrined in Antioch

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Representation

• man being thrown into the sea in a sack
• man in a coffin which is floating into shore and on which sits four angels
• man bound on a camel being led through the streets

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Dominican Adaptations from the Catalogus Hagiographicus OP
• Heiligen Lexikon
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Orthodox Church in America
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Wikipedia

MLA Citation

• “Saint Julian of Anazarbus“. Saints.SQPN.com. 16 March 2013. Web. 25 May 2013. <>