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The Paris church of St-Julien-le-Pauvre is supposed to be dedicated to
both this Julian and another from the Dauphiné.
www.kornbluthphoto.com/StJulienPauvre.html
all best,
Genevra
On 1/27/2016 1:29 AM, John Dillon wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Julian (d. 1st or 4th cent., supposedly) is the legendary protobishop of the city of the Cenoman(n)i, a Gallic people inhabiting what later came to be called Maine. Their city acquired a definite article and is now Le Mans (Sarthe). Julian's nicely written Vita by the late tenth-/early eleventh-century Letaldus of Micy (BHL 4544) numbers him among the famous apostles of Gaul and places their work in the years following the great persecutions (in the long run this dating proved to be a minority view, at least medievally: the paradigm of Petrine selection had been applied to Julian in the ninth century and would again be so applied from the thirteenth century onward). Founding an hermitage in what would become his diocese, Julian overcame opposition by operating miracles, of which the most dramatic was his causing a spring to burst forth from solid rock. Many conversions followed and when Julian had baptized the city's ruler (one Defensor) his work was assured. Later miracles of note included raising people from the dead and freeing others of demonic possession. Miracles attended both Julian's peaceful death at his hermitage and the transport of his remains to the city for burial. He had a magnificent funeral that drew a great crowd not only from the city proper but also from the surrounding countryside and villages and even from nearby _castella_. Many miracles were reported at his tomb. Thus far Letaldus.
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