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Saints of the Month: February

identified with St. Juliana of Cumae,
although they are quite distinct persons.
The veneration of St. Juliana of Cumae
became very widespread, especially in the
Netherlands. At the beginning of the
thirteenth century her remains were
transferred to Naples. The description of
this translation by a contemporary writer is
still extant. The feast of the saint is
celebrated in the Latin Church on 16
February, in the Greek on 21 December.
Her Acts describe the conflicts which she is
said to have with the devil; she is
represented in pictures with a winged devil
whom she leads by a chain.

MOMBRITIUS, Sanctuarium, II, fol. 41 v.-43 v.; Acta
SS., FEB., II, 808 sqq.; MIGNE, P.G., CXIV, 1437-52;
Bibliotheca hagiogr. lat., I, 670 sq.; Bibl. hagiogr.
graeca (2nd. ed.), 134; NILLES, Kalendarium manuale,
I (2nd ed., Innsbruck, 1896), 359; MAZOCCHI, In vetus
S. Neapolitanae ecclesiae Kalendarum commentarius, I
(Naples, 1744), 556-9; COCKAYNE, St. Juliana (London,
1872); Vita di S. Giuliana (Novara, 1889); BACKHAUS,
Ueber die Quelle der mittelenglischen Legende der hl.
Juliana und ihr Verhaltnis zu Cynewulfs Juliana (Halle,
1899).

J.P. KIRSCH

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