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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Ioulianos, martyr of Nicomedia

Saint ID

S01840

Gender
Type of Saint
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E03965The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 21 December *Gregory the Illuminator (convertor of Armenia, S00251), *Ioulianos/Julian (martyr of Nicomedia under Maximian, S01840).
E04562Procopius of Caesarea, in his On Buildings, reports that the emperor Justinian (r. 527-565) either built, or renovated numerous fortresses in the diocese of Thrace (eastern Balkans), five of them named after saints. Written in Greek at Constantinople, in the 550s.
E06408Gregory the Great in a papal letter (Register 9.205) of 599, to Januarius, bishop of Cagliari, mentions a bequest to a monastery dedicated to *Julianus (possibly the martyr of Cilicia, S00305), probably in the diocese of Cagliari (Sardinia). Written in Latin in Rome.