Remembered on December 21
Juliana and her companions
- MartyrA saint who was killed for bearing witness to Christ.
All martyrs
Juliana was a Christian of Nicomedia during the Roman persecutions. Her traditional life describes pressure from her family and the man she was expected to marry to abandon Christ. She refused, even when that refusal brought imprisonment and torture. The Church remembers them together. Her story asks us to consider what faithfulness means when the people closest to us do not understand it.
How they died
Tradition holds that Juliana and others who came to faith through her witness were beheaded.
- Feast day
- December 21
Parishes on the Old Calendar keep it on January 3. - Kind of saint
- Martyr
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