Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Gallican Martyrologies. Authority: — The apocryphal legend of these saints.] This is a Gallican localization of the legend of SS. Luceja and Aucejas, given in the June volume of “ Lives of the Saints/ 7 p. 342. The story is the same exactly in both cases, only the names and localities are altered. For Luceja, we have in the French story Julia, for Aucejas the barbarian king, we have the barbarian “ emperor” Claudius.

The story is, that in one of the inroads of the Goths [Germanic peoples who invaded the Roman Empire, many of them Arian Christians] on Gaul [roughly modern France and Belgium], the barbarians carried off a young damsel named Julia, from her native place, Troyes. The “emperor" of the Goths was named Claudius; he fell in love with the maiden, but she announced to him that she was a Christian and a consecrated virgin. Then he treated her with the ' utmost respect, and when he went to war visited her as an oracle, and obtained from her prophecies as to the event of his wars. She lived in a hut, or tent, he erected for her. At last she converted him and several other Gothic chiefs, and all returned together to Troyes, and submitted their necks to the executioner's sword by sentence of Eliclius, the prefect.

The relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] of all these martyrs are shown at Troyes. It is observable that in transferring the story to Gaul, those who perpetrated the fraud of altering and adapting the acts of SS. Luceja and Aucejas were so ignorant that they did not give to one of the German martyrs (they were twenty-one in all) a simple name of Teutonic origin — all are either Latin or Greek.