ST JULIAN, MARTYR AT BRIOUDE - 28 AUGUST

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST

Saints celebrated on the 28th of August

Prayer to the Angels and the Saints

Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.

In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.

Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.

Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

ST JULIAN, MARTYR AT BRIOUDE 

He was descended from one of the best families of Vienne in Dauphine. He served with the tribune Ferreol; and knew well how to reconcile the profession of arms with the maxims of the gospel. 

HIS MARTYRDOM

Crispin, governor of the province of Vienne, having declared himself against the Christians, our saint withdrew to Auvergne, not that he dreaded the persecution, but that he might be at hand to be of service to the faithful; for being acquainted, that he was sought after by the persecutors, of his own accord he presented himself before them saying: "Alas, I am too long in this bad world; oh! how I burn with desire to be with Jesus." He had scarcely uttered these words, when they separated his head from his body. 

THE PLACE OF HIS INTERMENT WAS REVEALED

It was near Brioude; but the place of his interment was for a long time unknown, until God revealed it to St Germain of Auxerre, when he passed by Brioude on his return from Arles, about the year 431. His head was afterwards translated to Vienne with the body of St Ferreol. 

NUMEROUS MIRACLES

St Gregory of Tours relates a great number of miracles wrought by his intercession. The same author mentions a church dedicated at Paris under the invocation of the holy martyr; it is that which is near the bridge called Petit pont, and has successively gone under the name of St Julian the Old, and St Julian the Poor. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)