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443 B. JULIANA US and curing them without the aid of a knife. She instituted the office for the sisters, and her office and mass were eventually granted to the whole Order of Servites of both sexes. She is regarded as the founder of the Sisters of the B. Y. Mary. The miracle of the Eucharist, which makes her so famous, is thus described in the Life of her disciple B. Jane SoDEBiNi, AA.SS., Oct. 27: When Juliana was near her death, seventy years of asceticism had so destroyed her health that she could not swallow any food, or if swallowed, could not keep it a moment in her stomach ; therefore the priests refused her the Sacrament. She begged that the pix, containing the con- secrated wafer, should be brought into her room. When this was done, she wanted to kiss it, but the priest forbade it, to her great distress. She then begged that a cloth might be spread on her breast and the host laid on that. This was granted, and the host dis- appeared and never could be found ; but the saint's face assumed an expression of rapture, and she expired and was be- lieved to have taken it to heaven with her soul. Many persons doubted the fact at the time, but the nuns, Jane and Elizabeth, when they washed her after her death, found on her heart a mark as of a seal, on which a crucifix was engraved. B,M, Modern Saints, edited by the Fathers of the Oratory. Holyot, part iii. chap. 41. Cahier. St Juliana (24), Dec. 21, + c. 1406. Wife of Simoon Mstislav, prince of Vi- azma, friend and fellow-exile of Youri (George), duke of Smolensk. Youri having tried in vain to seduce the beautiful and virtuous Juliana, invited her with her hud)and to a feast in his palace at Torzok or Torjek, the government of which had been given him, as a provision in his misfortunes, by Yassili, prince of Moscow, son of St. Euphrosyne (12). During the entertainment he stabbed Simeon, hoping to possess himself of Juliana, who he thought would be stupe- fied with terror; she seized a knife to kill him, he turned it aside, but received a wound in the hand. Anger now super- seded his former passion, he drew his sword, pursued Juliana, overtook her in the court of the palace, hewed her in pieceS; and threw her into the river. All his friends and followers were so horrified at his crime that he dared not show his face among the Bussians but fled to the Horde, and after wandering in deserts — an outcast like Cain — he finally died in a monastery in the principality of Bezan. Juliana was buried at Torzok. Her worship is uncertain. Orseco-Slavonian Calendar. Earamsin, v., 219. St Juliana (25); Jan. 27, May 14, O.S.B., 1343-1443. Becluse at Norwich. She had probably been for several years a nun before she was built up in a cell in the churchyard of St. Julian's at Norwich, where she lived for more than seventy years. This church was popularly supposed to be dedicated in honour of Juliana, but in fact it took its name from St. Julian, bishop of Mans (end of 3rd century), whose worship was popular in England under the Norman kings. Juliana, although considered and called a saint, never had any recognized wor- ship. Butler, <<St. Julian of Mans." Petits BoUandisiea, Vies des Saintes Femmes, by several ecclesiastics. In her thirtieth year, while living in tj^o her- mitage, she had revelations which were written down and have been published under the name of Bevelations of Divine Love; there is one edition by Grassy (B.F.G.) and one by H. Collins. B. Juliana (26) of Busto Arsitio near Yarese, Oct. 23, Aug. 14, O.S.A., 1427-1501, lay-sister in the abbey of Sta. Maria di Sacro Monte sopra Yarese, in the duchy of Milan. Before her en- trance into this convent, she used to work in the fields and long to be admitted as a disciple of B. Catherine Mobioia, who was living on the hill as a recluse. Her father ill-treated her because she would not marry. At last he consented to her going up the mountain to Catherine, who accepted her as a companion, and they lived together for twenty-two years. In 1471 they were joined by B. Bbne- DiCTA (17) ; then by her sister Francesca Bimia ; and then by Paula de Amuzi di Busto. It now appeared as if these five