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Saint Julian the Hospitaller [a] is a saint venerated in the Catholic Church [1] and Eastern Orthodox Church. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He is the patron saint of the cities of Ghent , Belgium; Saint Julian's , Malta; and Macerata , Italy.
"A Simple Heart" was the inspiration for Flaubert's Parrot, a literary novel by Julian Barnes. "Hérodias" is said to have influenced Oscar Wilde's Salome (1893) and Jules Massenet's opera Hérodiade (1881); [1] "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitalier" was the basis for an opera of the same title by Camille Erlanger (1888).
The feast of Saint Julian, celebrated in Brioude on 28 August, drew such crowds to the saint's relics that in the mid-11th century the chapter was obliged to build a hostel to care for the indigent pilgrim and the sick. [6] Odilo of Cluny studied at the seminary of St. Julien in Brioude. [7] Saint Julien appears in a fifteenth century Book of ...
Only a fragment of Ælfric's Passion of St. Julian and His Wife Basilissa from his Lives of the Saints has survived, but the traditional legend is there: the two vow not to consummate their marriage on their wedding night, and devote themselves to clænnysse ("chastity"). Julian suffers martyrdom by beheading. [3]
Julian of Antioch (Latin: Julianus, Greek: Ίουλιανός; d. AD 305 x 311), [1] variously distinguished as Julian the Martyr, Julian of Tarsus, Julian of Cilicia, and Julian of Anazarbus, was a 4th-century Christian martyr and saint. He is sometimes confused with the St Julian who was martyred with his wife Basilissa.
The physiognomic features of the saint with a full cheek face, curly hair up to the ears, short dark beard and mustache, as well as the modeling of his helmet, direct the closest analogies to the Church of the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God in Velestovo, near Ohrid, more precisely towards the image of St. Mercurius painted in 1444.
Saint Julian of Le Mans (French: Saint Julien du Mans; Latin: Iulianus; 3rd century; perhaps 4th century) is a saint venerated in both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church, honoured as the first bishop of Le Mans. His feast day is 27 January. The translation of his relics is celebrated on 25 July.
A sermon by Saint John Chrysostom, entitled On Saints Juventinus and Maximinus, tells the story of two of Julian's soldiers at Antioch, who were overheard at a drinking party, criticizing the emperor's religious policies, and taken into custody. According to Chrysostom, the emperor had made a deliberate effort to avoid creating martyrs of those ...