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Saint Juliana, the one who scared the devil. The stories, or rather the legends, of the holy martyrs of the first centuries of Christianity all seem similar at first glance. Instead, they have clever nuances and diversity of meaning, or at least poetry. Saint Agatha and Saint Agnes, for example, were like very pure angels who protected the love of the Mystic Bridegroom through the snares of passion.
Saint Juliana, on the other hand, had agreed to marry Eulogius, a pagan prefect of her city, Nicomedia in Bithynia. However, after the wedding, she firmly refused the embrace of the idolatrous bridegroom. To better understand her gesture, one must remember that at that time young girls were married at a very young age and often their consent was not even required. The marriage was therefore arranged by relatives who were difficult to refuse from an influential party, such as in this case the prefect of Nicomedia. Juliana, an obedient saint, accepted the bridegroom imposed on her.
She was then a loving saint, of superhuman love, when she gave her body as a reward for the conversion of the pagan bridegroom. But the bridegroom, superficial in love, was too afraid of the emperor's power. He refused to convert; in fact, frightened by the idea of
