ST JULIAN, FIRST BISHOP OF MANS, CONFESSOR - 27 JANUARY

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY

Saints celebrated on the 27th of January

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SAINT JULIAN, FIRST BISHOP OF MANS, CONFESSOR

(Towards the end of the Third Century.) Saint Julian was succeeded by St Turibius. His head is shown in the cathedral of Mans, but the most of his relics in the neighbouring Benedictine abbey of nuns called St Julian's du Prè, famous for miracles; though the greater part of these relics was burnt, or scattered in the wind by the Huguenots, who plundered the shrine of St Julian in 1562. 

HE WAS MUCH HONOURED IN FRANCE

He was much honoured in France, and many churches built during the Norman succession in England, especially about the reign of Henry II who was baptised in the church of St Julian, at Mans, bear his name: one in particular at Norwich, which the people by mistake imagined to have been dedicated under the title of the venerable Juliana , a Benedictine nun at Norwich, who died in the odour of sanctity, but never was publicly invoked as a saint. St Julian of Mans had an office in the Sarum Breviary.

Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Julian may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.