Juliana

Holy Martyr Juliana is known only in part from the sources. The time of her life and the details of her death are unknown. In the Typikon of the Great Church (ninth to eleventh centuries) and in the Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople (basic form from the end of the tenth century), her commemoration is accompanied by the note "near Strobilus", which can mean either the place of her martyric death or the place where a solemn service was held in her memory. It is not known which Strobilus is meant: a city in Caria (Asia Minor) or a place in Constantinople.

In the Roman Martyrology (sixteenth century) her commemoration is joined to that of the martyr Leo, who died at Myra in Lycia. H. Delehaye identified him with the Leo who suffered with Parigorius at Patara in Lycia, commemorated on 18 February. However, neither in the long Lives nor in the synaxarion Lives of Leo and Parigorius is Juliana mentioned. Delehaye, G. Lucchesi and R. Aubert considered that Juliana is one and the same as Juliana of Ptolemais, commemorated on the following day, 17 (30) August. R. Janin and Sophronios Eustratiades, metropolitan of Pentapolis, identified her with another saint of the same name, Juliana of Nicomedia, to whom a church was dedicated in the Constantinopolitan quarter of Petrion, where Janin believed the place Strobilus lay.

Her commemoration is included in the printed Greek Menaion (Venice, 1591) and in the Synaxaristes of Saint Nikodemos the Hagiorite, who composed a couplet in the saint's honour. Information on Juliana is found in some Slavic and Russian verse Prologues, but not in the Menaia of Makarii. She is commemorated on 18 August (31 August, new style), according to the Greek calendar. She is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.