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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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September 13 · Priest, Martyr

St. Julian

St. Julian

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

September 13
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Priest
Martyr

Early life

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

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

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 September 13 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: By the Greeks on Sept. 12 and 13; inserted by Baronius along with Macrobius, Gordian, and others in the Modern Roman Martyrology. 1 S. Julian was a priest in Galatia, who, when Licinius threw off the mask of tolerance, hid himself with forty Christians in a cave. He was taken and brought before the prefect of the tyrant, who stretched him on an iron bed over a lire, and roasted him to death.

Feast days

Feast: September 13

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

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

Also on September 13
St. Philip

St. Philip

September 13 · Martyr
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Sts. Macrobius

September 13 · Martyrs
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St. Maurilius of Angers

September 13 · Bishop
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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

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.

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.