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I would agree with Fr. Ambrose that Quiricus and Julitta may have attracted attention because of their powers of intercession for women and children. Curt F. Buhler printed a late fourteenth-century Middle English and Latin cross charm (Speculum 39; 1964, pp. 274-75). Apparently other vernacular versions of it circulated in Europe from the thirteenth century on. A parchment supposedly measured to the height of Christ, it provided eight protections against harm to those who used it. The last of these was safety in childbirth for women who laid it on their womb during labor. This guaranteed that "the child shall be baptized and the mother shall have the service of purification, since St. [Quiricus] and St. Julitta, his mother, desired these gracious gifts of God, which he granted to them, and this is recorded at Rome." The Latin prayer which follows these promises invokes "Quiricus, with the blessed Julitta, glory of children, soldier of the king of the angels."
Best,
John
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Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 8:43 am
Subject: Re: saints of the day 16. June addendum
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> I have an old icon of Saint Julitta and Saint Kirik, a gift from a
> Russianemigre family (see a version of it here
> http://www.oca.org/pages/orth_chri/Feasts-and-Saints/July/Jul-
> 15.html#kyrikos )
>
> Their relics were kept in Constantinople and a church was built in
> theirhonour close to Jerusalem. The faithful believe that this
> Saint and her
> small son have a special care for the family's well-being and for
> the health
> of children. Could this be the connection which gained them a
> place in the
> Salisbury Calendar?
>
> Fr Ambrose
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 16. June addendum
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> > >I wonder why Salisbury would want to include such obscure
> saints as
> > >Cyricus (Quiricus) and Julitta on their calendar. They are martyrs
> > >from Diocletian's time, apparently martyred in 304. Their acta are
> > >fictional, telling that Julitta was a widowed noblewoman of
> > >Iconomium and her three-year-old son, who for some reason (probably
> > >sexist) always gets named first. They were arrested, and the
> > >examining magistrate at Tarsus got mad because the kid
> scratched his
> > >face. So little Cyricus was beaten to death, then Julitta was
> > >executed.
> >
> > Phyllis
> >
> > >medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion
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> > >Phyllis Jestice wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Today (16. June) is the feast day of:
> > >>
> > >
> > >In the Salisbury Calendar it is the feast of the Translation of St
> Richard
> > >of Chichester [1262] (although there is some confusion locally
> that it
> might
> > >have been celebrated on 14 June - see Duffy, Stripping, p.398);
> also> >"memorial and middle lessons Sts Cyricus and Julitta".
> > >
> > >John Briggs
> > >
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