Also known as
- Juliana of Cumae
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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.
- burned, boiled in oil, and beheaded c.305
- relics at Cumae, Naples, Italy
- 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
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia, by J P Kirsch
- Cathlic Online
- For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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