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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Iulius, bishop of Rome, ob. 352

Saint ID

S00543

Reported Death Not Before

352

Reported Death Not After

352

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops , "Confessors"
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00683The Notitia ecclesiarum urbis Romae, a guide to saints' graves around Rome, lists those on the via Appia, south of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 625/649.
E00689The Notitia ecclesiarum urbis Romae, a guide to saints' graves around Rome, lists those on the via Aurelia, west of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 625/649.
E01051The Depositio Episcoporum, a list of the burials of the bishops of Rome deceased between 255 and 352, gives both the day of the year and the place of their burial; from the so-called Chronography of 354, compiled in Latin in Rome, c. 354.
E01243The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Iulius/Julius (bishop of Rome, ob. 352, S00543), states that he was buried in the cemetery of Calepodius on the via Aurelia outside Rome, on 12 April [AD 352].
E05539Bede, in his Martyrology, records the feast on 12 April at Rome of the laying to rest of *Iulius/Julius (bishop of Rome, ob. 352, S02082). Written in Latin at Wearmouth-Jarrow (north-east Britain), 725/731.
E06362The decrees of a synod held by Pope Gregory the Great in 595 in St Peter’s basilica, Rome, are subscribed by presbyters from many of the city's titular churches, all dedicated to saints (Register 5.57a). Written in Latin in Rome.
E0831535 relic labels at Sens (northern Gaul), datable by their script to the 7th or 8th c., for relics of a great diversity of saints. Written in Latin, perhaps at Sens, or at an earlier stage in their transmission.