Saint Juliana of Nicomedia
- Also known as
- Juliana of Cumae
- Memorial
- 16 February
- Profile
- Daughter of a pagan named Africanus who promised the girl to a young noble named Evilase.
She wanted to put him off, and first insisted that he become prefect of Nicomedia.
When he became prefect, she insisted he become a Christian before they could marry, a condition he could never meet.
Her father, who hated Christians himself, abused 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 favorite story, for telling and creation of stained glass and other art objects, during the Middle Ages.
- Died
- burned, boiled in oil, and beheaded c.305;
relics at Cumae, Naples, Italy
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
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bodily ills;
sick people;
sickness
- 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 and hanging by her hair
- Additional Information
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Google Directory
Cathlic Online
Catholic Encyclopedia, by J P Kirsch
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
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