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442 442 B. JULIANA COLLALTO B. Juliana (22) CoUalto. Sept. l, v., 1186-1202. Abbess and founder of the Benedictine convent of SS. Blasius and Cataldns at Venice, invoked against migraine at Yenice. Juliana was bom in the territory of Padua, of a noble family of German origin, and took the veil in the con- vent of St Margaret at Solaras, near the castle of Este. In the same convent, in 1220, B. Beatrice, princess of Este, took the habit, at the age of fourteen. Two years afterwards Juliana removed with Beatrice and nine other nuns to Demola, a deserted convent which Azo n., marquis of Este, restored for them, with the approbation of the Bishop of Padua. After the death of Beatrice in 1226, St. Blasius, bishop of Sebaste, appeared to Juliana and told her to remove to Venice, to the island then called Capo, or Spina Longa, afterwards Ponta della Zuecca, where she built, in honour of SS. Blasius and Cataldus, a convent and church and a hospice presided over by monks. Here she lived in great sanctity. Once she supplied the nuns with bread by a miracle, and once in their presence, an angol brought the Infant Christ and placed Him in Juliana's arms. Other miracles are recorded of her. Perior, in AA.SS. Cahier. According to Molmenti, Storia di Venczia nella vita privaiaj one of the few remaining mo- diaoval Venetian castles on the mainland is that of San Salvador, which the Counts of Collalto built and fortified, in Juliana's tijno, on a hill which they acquired from the Bonaparti of Troviso. It has three rows of wall,. sarocinesque towers and loop-holes. St. Juliana (23) Falconieri, June ll>, 127U"1;341. First superior of the tellate. Patron of the Servitoa Eepresented (1) in a print in which she is entitled *' Sta. Giuliana Falconieri, Fondatrice del terz' ordino de Servi di Maria Vorgine," in the dress of her order, pointing to a large star on her breast, in the centre of which is a round mark like a seal or coin, bearing the letters, C.H.S. ; an angel carrying a lily in his loft hand, with the right holds a circle over her head ; (2) with a slit in her gown, showing a mark thus, ^ over her heart, a rosary in her hand, a skull and a lily at her feet She came of an ancient and illustrious fiimily in Florence. Her parents were an aged couple who had for many years been childless. Her father was the founder of the church of the Annunziata and other religious buildings ; her mother's name was Kiguardata. J uliana's first words were " Jesus " and " Mary." She never looked in a glass in her life and never looked a man in the face. She amused herself by building and adorning little altars to the B. V. Mary. When she dressed her hair, she arranged the pins so that they should prick and torment her. When she was fourteen, hor mother was very anxious that she should marry Falco, the most eligible of many suitors ; but as she was bent on a celibate life, Bi- guardata, although disappointed, yi^ed to her vocation. In the same year, Juliana was received by St. Philip B^izi, general of the Servites, as a member of the 3rd Order. He and her uncle, B. Alexis Falconieri, were two of the seven founders of the Order of Servants of Mary, commonly called Servites; and St. Philip afterwards had a great esteem for her sanctity and for the power of her prayers. She was the first woman who was admitted into the order, and her pro- fession was the same as that of the friars, as no rule had been made for women. The 3rd Order was instituted to serve the sick and for other offices of charity. Like women of other 3rd Orders they were called Mantellate. They had no convent ; some lived in their homes ; some, in separate buildings attached to the monasteries of brethren of the order. About 1 30r), Father Andrea, successor of St. Philip Benizi and sixth general of the Servites, wishing to stablish and strengthen the sisters of the 3rd Order, desired them to choose a superior. They elected B. Juliana, who was then thirty- six years old. Her charity was so great thai she sucked the wounds of some of her patients ; relieving them of the poison,
 * {rd Order of the Sorvites, called Man-