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ST. JULIANA 441 Turin. So this pious woman made them very drunk, and when they were sound asleep, she put St. Solutor in her chariot and went to the city of Turin in haste. As she had to cross a river, it divided before her, and she passed through on dry ground. Then she took the bodies of Adventor and Octavius, buried them with that of Solutor, and built a chapel on the spot, where afterwards St. Victor, bishop of Turin, built a large church. AA,SS. St. Juliana (lO) of Florence, widow. 4th century. Eulogized by St. Ambrose in his sermon preached at the consecra- tion of the Basilica of St. Lorenzo, called also Ambrosiana, which was built by Juliana and afterwards entirely rebuilt by Cosmo and Lorenzo de Medici. She is perhaps the same St. Juliana who built a church in Bologna, 433. A fragment of an inscription, found in the subterranean part of the church, is sup- posed to indicate her burial-place. B,M. AA,SS. Brocchi, SS. and BB. Fiaren- tinij considers them to be two different saints. St. Juliana (20), Julia (28). St. Juliana (2i ), AprH r>, l li>3-l 258. Prioress of the Cistercian house of Mont Comillon. Patron of Liege. Eeprcsented (1) praying before the tabernacle, an angel points to a dark spot on the moon, indicating a blot or want among the festivals of the Church ; (2) in a cow-house; (3) one of a group of three, the others being her sister Agnes and their teacher B. Sapientia. Juliana was bom at Eetinne, near Li6gc. She and her sister were brought up by the nuns of Mont Comillon, whoso chief occupation was the care of lepers. They placed the children at their farm, under the charge of B. Sapientia. Al- though a liberal allowance was paid for their education and maintenance, Juliana insisted on doing the hardest and lowest of the work and denying herself in every way. She volunteered to clean the cow- house, and soon had the chief manage- ment of the cows, which throve particu- larly well under her care. As her education progressed, her favourite study was the works of St. Augustine, and next to those, St. Bernard's Commentary on the Song of Solomon. She succeeded B. Sapientia as prioress in 1222. Her devo- tion to the Holy Sacrament was so great that about 1230 she procured by her representations, that a special office and festival should be instituted in honour of it. Notwithstanding her strong desire and a vision which she had twenty years before this, she had been withheld by humility from presuming to suggest this alteration in the custom of the Church. She consulted her most es- teemed nuns, some of whom at first dis- couraged her. The festival was first solemnized at Li^ge in 1 240, and it was made general throughout the Church in the time of Urban IV., while Juliana was suffering persecution and exile ; for, being too good not to have enemies, she was driven out of the convent she had en- riched with her own fortune, and was living on charity with a few of her devoted adherents. They lived for some time among the Beguines of Namur, and in differentreligious houses, until B. Imaine, half-sister of the Archbishop of Cologne, insisted that the house which retamed Juliana's property should make her an allowance sufficient to procure the neces- saries of life. She died in the convent of Fosse, and was buried by her own wish at Yillors. Four of her nuns are accounted Blessed ; three of these died before their mistress: Agnes, who is perhaps her own sister; Isabel, who was already distinguished as a very holy woman at Huy before she came to Mont Comillon ; and OziLiA. B. Eve, who had been .a recluse at Liege, before joining Juliana, survived her. Juliana is called "Saint" in many martyrologies ; ^ Blessed " in others. About fifty years after her death, tho feast she had invented was made obli- gatory throughout the Church, by the name of Carpus Chriatt or the Feast of the Holy Sacrament, and fixed for the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. Her name is in the Cistercian Ap- pendix to the B,M. Her contemporary Life, written first in French, is given in Latin in the AA.SS. Baillet. Collin de Plancy, Legended du Calnidrur. Biographie Nationale Beige.