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ST JULIANA OF NICOMEDIA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR - 16 FEBRUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY   Saints celebrated on the 16th February WELCOME! SAINT JULIANA OF NICOMEDIA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR  After many torments, Saint Juliana was beheaded at Nicomedia, under Galerius Maximianus. St Gregory the Great mentions that her bones were translated to Rome.  SHE IS MUCH HONOURED IN THE LOW COUNTRIES Part of them are now at Brussels, in the church of our Lady of Sablon. This saint is much honoured in the Low Countries.  Her acts in Bollandus deserve no notice. Bede, and the martyrologies ascribed to St Jerome, call this the day of her martyrdom, which the ancient Corbie manuscript places at Nicomedia.  Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints PRAYER: May blessed Juliana, Virgin and Martyr, who was ever pleasing to you by the merit of her chastity and by her trust in your power, implore for us your forgiveness, we beseech you, O God. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Hol...