The Holy Martyr Julian lived during the fourth century not
far from the ancient city of Ancyra. A report was made to the governor
of the district of Galatia that the Presbyter Julian was hiding in a
certain cave with forty others of the same persuasion and that he was
celebrating divine services there. They arrested St Julian and demanded
that he reveal where the remaining Christians were hidden but he
refused.
The pagans ordered the holy priest to offer sacrifice to
their gods but he would not consent to this either. Then they
stripped him and placed him on a red-hot iron grate. The martyr signed
himself with the Sign of the Cross and an angel of the Lord cooled the
flame. St Julian remained unharmed.
When the governor asked who
he was and how he had quenched the fire, the martyr said: “I am a
servant of God.” The torturers brought forth an old woman, the mother of
the saint, and they threatened her that if she did not persuade her son
to offer sacrifice to idols, then they would torture her. The brave
woman answered that if they defiled her body against her will, this
would not make her guilty of sin before God. On the contrary, it would
constitute an act of martyrdom.
The humiliated torturers sent the
old woman away, but they condemned St Julian to death. In his prayer
the saint gave fervent thanks to God and asked that he be given strength
to endure the sufferings. St Julian also asked a special grace from
God: that those who take earth from the place of his burial be granted
forgiveness of sins and deliverance from passions, and that harmful
insects and birds might not descend upon their fields.
Commending
himself to God with the words: “Lord, accept my spirit in peace!” the
martyr bent his neck beneath the sword, and a Voice summoned the martyr
to the Heavenly Kingdom. This Voice was heard also by those Christians
who had hidden themselves in the cave. Emboldened, they came forth to
the place of St Julian’s sufferings, but they found him already dead.
They all confessed themselves to be Christians, and they were arrested
and brought to the governor, who ordered them beheaded.
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