Feb 152009
 

Also known as

  • Juliana of Cumae

Memorial

Profile

Daughter of a pagan named Africanus who promised the girl to a young noble named Evilase. Juliana put him off, first insisting that he become prefect of Nicomedia. When he became prefect, she insisted he become a Christian before they could marry, a condition he would never meet. Her father, who hated Christians himself, abused Juliana fearfully to get her to change her mind, but she held fast; ancients manuscripts describing these horrors put them in terms of her fighting a dragon, and she is often depicted that way in art. Evilase called her before the tribunal during the persecutions of Maximianus, denounced her as a Christian, and she was martyred. Hers was a favourite story, for telling and creation of stained glass and other art objects, during the Middle Ages.

Died

Canonized

Patronage

Representation

  • maiden battling a winged devil
  • maiden being boiled
  • maiden chaining up a dragon
  • maiden chaining up and/or scourging the Devil
  • maiden in a cauldron
  • maiden leading a chained devil
  • maiden standing or sitting on a dragon
  • maiden wearing a crown on her head and a cross on her breast
  • naked maiden hanging by her hair

Additional Information

MLA Citation

  • “Saint Juliana of Nicomedia”. Saints.SQPN.com. 3 May 2012. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-juliana-of-nicomedia/>