ON SAINT JULIAN, MARTYR, AT AUXERRE IN GAUL.
Toward the end of the third century.
CommentaryJulian, Martyr, at Auxerre in Gaul (Saint)
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[1] At Auxerre in Gaul, on the third of the Nones of February, Saint Julian the Martyr is honored, as report Hermann Greuen in his Additions to Usuard, the manuscript Florarium, Maurolycus, Felicius, and Ferrarius. Feast of Saint Julian the Martyr. We were in doubt, because they reported nothing else about him, whether on that day at Auxerre there was celebrated the feast of Julian of Antinoe or of Antioch, whose Acts we gave on the ninth of January, or certainly of the Julian of Brioude, of whom we shall treat on the twenty-eighth of August, or some Translation of relics. Saussaius produced more certain information, when in the supplement to the Gallican Martyrology on this day he writes thus: "At Auxerre, Saint Julian the Martyr, slain for the courageous preaching of the faith converted by Saint Peregrinus the Bishop Martyr, which he had received from Saint Peregrinus, the Apostle and protomartyr of that city." We believe this was taken from the Breviary of Auxerre or from other documents which we have not seen. In the Life of Saint Peregrinus, which we shall give on the sixteenth of May, there is no mention of Saint Julian. In the third century of Christ. Saint Peregrinus is said to have been sent into Gaul by Pope Sixtus II, in the times of Valerian and Gallienus.