Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
March 16
March 16 (also listed: June 21)
Martyr
Julian, a Cilician of a senatorial family at Anazarbus, was a minister of the gospel arrested in Dioclesian's persecution. Butler's source is St. Chrysostom's panegyric.
For a whole year the judge had him dragged through the towns of Cilicia, which only let him encourage the Christians there. He bore every kind of torture.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 45 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
This saint was a native of Cilicia, the same province which had the honour of producing S. Paul.
Stay faithful when it costs you. This account is about holding firm under pressure.
Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
This saint was a native of Cilicia, the same province which had the honour of producing S. Paul. In one of the persecutions of the Church he was sentenced to be tied up in a sack with vipers and scorpions, and thrown into the sea.
Feast: March 16
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Julian of Anazarbus's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: Julian of Tarsus.jpg · Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.
Image: Unknown authorUnknown author, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. 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.
