CONCERNING SAINT JULITTA, HONORED BY THE GREEKS.
From the Manuscript Synaxarion of Dijon.
CommentaryJulitta, honored by the Greeks (St.)
G. H.
Several Saints occur in this our work, called Julitta. Among these is the illustrious Martyr, one of the seven Virgins crowned with martyrdom with St. Theodotus at Ancyra in Galatia; whose distinguished Acts of all of them, written in Greek by Nilus as author and translated into Latin, we gave on the 18th of May. Another is given below on 16 June, Julitta a Martyr with her son Quiricus, crowned at Tarsus in Cilicia: and her distinguished deeds likewise the reader will find there. There is also Julitta a Martyr, at Caesarea in Cappadocia consumed by fire, whose praises St. Basil the Great celebrated, to be referred to the 30th of July. Finally different from all these, St. Julitta became known to us on this 14 June from a Manuscript Synaxarion, kept at Dijon in the College of the Society of Jesus, and once communicated by Peter Francis Chifflet, where she is said to have ended her life in peace, and these verses are added:
"Julitta is led out of the little flesh by the Word of God who for our sake appeared in the flesh." He led Julitta out of the little flesh, the Word of God seen in the flesh for our sake. From which nothing else is had, than a testimony of her death holily met: yet they had to be set forth here, in the hope of fuller light to shine forth some day, if her Acts are some day found consigned to letters.