St. Julia

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Read the essentials →
May 22 · Virgin, Martyr

St. Julia

St. Julia

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

May 22
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

May 22 (also listed: July 16)
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Virgin
Martyr

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on May 22 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

Read more

The full original · 0 words

Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology; also the ancient Roman Martyrology called by the name of S. Jerome, Ado, Notker, Usuardus, &c. The Acts, as the writer' says in his prologue, are derived from tradition.] — AINT JULIA was a Christian maiden, a slave to a Syrian merchant at Carthage, named Eusebius. Her master treated her kindly, having learned to respect her strict integrity and diligence in exactly discharging her duties in his house. His business having called him from home, he took Julia with him; and the vessel anchored off the modern Cape Corso of Corsica. Julia and her master went on shore, and found that a pagan sacrifice was being offered. Julia was invited to share in the festival, but indignantly refused, denouncing the sacrifice as idolatrous. Upon this she was dragged before the ruler Felix, who had her beaten on the mouth and then crucified. Her body was carried to the island of Gorgone, whence it was transported to Brescia by Ariza, wife of Didier, king of the Lombards, who built a magnificent church to contain it. S. QUITERIA, V.M.

Feast days

Feast: May 22

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Julia's story, and a nudge to keep going.

Also on May 22
D

St. Desiderius of Langres

May 23 · Bishop, Martyr
D

St. Desiderius of Vienne

May 24 · Bishop, Martyr
St. William of Rochester

St. William of Rochester

May 24 · Martyr
← All 1727 saints in the library
Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

Image: Meaux Vitrail 1867 30808 2.jpg · Vassil · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: Vassil, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.