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Martyr

Julian

Martyr of Africa

A martyr in Africa, remembered in the ancient martyrologies of the Church.

Feast
May 23old style June 5
Era
3rd century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Julian of Carthage was a disciple of Saint Cyprian and died a martyr at Carthage in the persecution of the emperor Valerian, in the third century.

The sources say little about him, except that he was one of the disciples of Cyprian put to death for the faith in that persecution. The old martyrologies commemorate him on 23 May in the Western calendar, on the same day as the martyr Victoricus. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured in the West, without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day May 23