Память святого мученика Иулиана Тарсянина

Saint Julian, the son of a pagan senator and a Christian mother, was born in the Cilician 4076 city of Anazar. After the death of her husband, the mother of Saint Julian moved from Anazar to the Cilician city of Tarsus 4077. Here she baptized the youth Julian into the Christian faith and raised him, teaching him, along with book teaching, the truths of the faith and the rules of Christian piety. When Julian turned 18 years old, a strong persecution of Christians arose, erected by the emperor Diocletian 4078. Among other Christians, Saint Julian was taken and brought to trial before Hegemon Marcian 4079. But neither cruel tortures, nor threats, nor promises of gifts and honors could persuade the pious young man to make pagan sacrifices and to renounce Christ. For a whole year they took Julian to different cities of Cilicia, subjecting him to torture everywhere, but he, like adamant 4080, remained adamant in confessing his faith in Jesus Christ. When Saint Julian was brought to the city of Aegea 4081, there the wicked pagans forcibly opened the mouth of the holy martyr and put meat and blood sacrificed to idols there, wanting to defile the pure and holy servant of Christ with ungodly sacrifices. After this, Saint Julian was thrown into prison. His pious mother came here to him, who accompanied Julian everywhere, begging the Lord to strengthen her son in his suffering. When the tormentors took the mother of Saint Julian and brought her to trial, she asked the hegemon to allow her to visit her son in prison for three days in order to convince him to worship idols. The hegemon allowed her to come to her son in prison without any restrictions. She, spending days and nights with him in prison and talking with him with motherly love, with tears exhorted him to endure temporary torment to the end, in order to be worthy of eternal blessings from the Lord in the kingdom of martyrs. After three days, Saint Julian and his mother were brought to trial before the hegemon. Thinking that the mother had already persuaded her son to make idol sacrifices, the hegemon began to praise her for this exhortation, but she loudly and fearlessly began to confess the name of Jesus Christ and denounce pagan atheism. Likewise, Saint Julian fearlessly confessed and glorified Jesus Christ, the One True God, and denounced pagan polytheism. Then the angry hegemon ordered to torture both - mother and son. The saint's mother, after many tortures, had her feet cut off with which she had followed her son, following him from Tarsus; The holy martyr Julian was placed in a bag filled with sand and various poisonous reptiles, and thrown into the sea. This is how Saint Julian ended his suffering. After some time, his pious mother also died in suffering, and both received the crown of victory from Christ God. The body of Saint Julian was carried by the waves to the shore, where a pious widow from Alexandria found him and gave him honorable burial. Subsequently, the holy relics of Julian were transferred to Antioch in 4082. Saint John Chrysostom 4083, when he was a presbyter in Antioch, honored the memory of the holy martyr Julian with a word of praise. Let us all worthily praise Julian today for the piety of the invincible warrior, and the truth of the concordant and armorer, and we cry out to him: pray to Christ God for all of us. Cilicia is a southeastern Roman province in Asia Minor. Tarsus is a large and populated city in the southern part of Cilicia, near the Cydna River, which flows into the Mediterranean Sea not far from it. And at present Tarsus is still quite a significant city. Diocletian reigned from 284 to 305. Hegemon - ruler of the region Adamant (diamond) is a stone that has such strength that it draws other stones without receiving harm from it. This name is given in church literature to many saints who became famous for the firmness of their faith. Aegea is one of the seaside cities in Cilicia. Antioch is the oldest city in Syria, lies near the river. Oronte, 10 versts from its confluence with the Mediterranean Sea. Saint John Chrysostom - the famous father of the Church of the 4th and early 5th centuries; his memory is November 13. You might be interested in: