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Juliana was the daughter of a pagan named Africanus who promised the girl to a young noble named Evilase. Juliana put him off, first insisting that he should become prefect of Nicomedia. When he became prefect, she insisted he should become a Christian before they could marry, a condition he would never meet. Her father, who hated Christians himself, abused Juliana to get her to change her mind, but she held fast; ancient 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
- bodily ills
- sick people
- sickness
- Pedrosa de Río Úrbel, Spain
Representation
- young woman battling a winged devil
- young woman being boiled
- young woman chaining up a dragon
- young woman chaining up and/or scourging the Devil
- young woman in a cauldron
- young woman leading a chained devil
- young woman standing or sitting on a dragon
- young woman wearing a crown on her head and a cross on her breast
naked young woman hanging by her hair
Source: https://catholicsaints.info/saint-juliana-of-nicomedia/
