Julien de Brioude
See also: Holy Julien
Saint Julien of Brioude (3rd century) is a Martyr of the Catholic church. Roman soldier convert with the Christianity, it would have undergoes the Martyre in 304.
The statuary represents it, in a traditional way, as a Roman soldier holding with a hand the crown of martyrdom and other the instrument of the torment, the sword.
Festival: August 28th
History
Saint Julien de Brioude would be originating in Vienna (Isere), on the the Rhone. Roman and Christian soldier, like saint Ferréol, who was his friend, it flees the persecution of Dioclétien but was taken again by the Romans in Auvergne, close to Brioude. He was decapitated.
Jacques de Voragine reports, in the gilded Légende , that when the Crispin governor sent one of his men to kill it, Julien left itself at his place and offered himself as a martyr. Its head was then brought to Ferréol saint, who was threatened of the same fate if it did not sacrifice to the gods. This last refused and was carried out. One then placed his skin as well as the head of Julien saint in the same tomb.
Posterity
The modest tomb of Julien with Brioude was the object of a worship as of the 4th century. It was one of the oldest sanctuaries of Auvergne. In a few tens of years, Julien became a saint. No document former to Gregoire de Tours ( Of gloria martyrum , towards 590), attests its holiness, but it is currency for the saints of the origins of the Christianisme.
One dedicated to him more than eight hundred churches, of which there remain at least three hundreds .
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