Julia
Acta Sanctorum, May 22
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ON ST. JULIA,

VIRGIN MARTYR IN CORSICA.

SIXTH OR SEVENTH CENTURY

PRELIMINARY COMMENTARY.

On her Acts, age, cult, translation to Brescia.

Julia the Virgin, Martyr in Corsica (S.)

BY THE AUTHOR D. P.

Celebrated is the memory of S. Julia in all the Latin
and those more ancient Martyrologies. Among these
stand out four of the Hieronymian Martyrology
copies; in which after the old Martyrs, whom
alone Jerome could have transcribed, [The sacred memory in the ancient Fasti] by another of the same Martyrology
to be enlarged the curator, but very ancient,
at this XXII of May added are read these words: In
the island of Corsica the natal day of Julia: thus the Ms. Epternacensian. But
the Lucensian and Blumianus. In the island of Corsica the passion of S. Julia:
and is added Virgin and Martyr in the Ms. Corbeian
printed at Paris: and everywhere then from the prior day is repeated.
At Caesarea of Cappadocia the natal day of S. Polioctus, which similarly
by Jerome written there was not. Of the same S. Julia
mention is made in the Mss. Martyrologies Barberinian, in the Supplement
of Bede, Augustan of S. Udalric, Richenovian near
Constance, Trier of S. Maximinus, and others. There agree
Usuard, Ado, Notker, and others later with today's
Martyrology Roman, in which these things are had: In Corsica
of S. Julia the Virgin, who by the punishment of the cross was crowned.

[2] The Acts of martyrdom several times we obtained, but among the various
copies, in phrase, in variants the first place obtains,
that which we at Florence transcribed in the Medicean library, [The Acts of the Passion from the Mss.]
from a Legendary above shelf XX found. The author in
the Prologue asserts, that he it from the tradition and full faith of the elders
received. Another copy, somewhat more elegant,
but without a prologue, John Gamans our own found in
a monastery of Westphalia, Böddeken, of the Canons Regular
of the diocese of Paderborn, where at the end it is said that the Monks,
who by Angelic admonition from Gorgona the neighboring island to Corsica
sailing the body of the Martyr from the cross took down, and carried away,
found her Life and passion and contest
by Angelic hands written. Which if true
it is, to be grieved indeed that a writing of this kind, however
brief, so negligently was kept, that long after
it was needful from the elders' tradition to write the Acts. It must be confessed
indeed that there crept in certain things, correction rather than faith meriting. Meanwhile the Florentine Acts, which alone now
we can, from the Böddeken ones we have illustrated. A third Acts to us
submitted Bernardinus Faynus, Canon of Brescia, from an ancient
Breviary of the Brescia nuns of the royal monastery
of S. Julia, in which her venerable body is kept. These to the old
add nothing, except a looser phrase: wherefore from them
we shall take nothing other, than the clause about the body's translation:
then we shall give the Hymns of the Saint, on her feast to be recited
wont, which the cult confirm, and the faith had
in the Passion from Gorgona the island together with the body received. Other things
from the said excerpts printed are found in the Appendix of Ado,
and thence taken in Surius and Baronius can be read;
as also, those things which published Peter de Natalibus book 5 chapter 29 from
which his elogium formed Ferrarius in the Catalogue of the Saints
of Italy. Of the same S. Julia after Christopher Lauro
Octavius Rossi and others, more has Salvator Vitalis
in the Sacred Chronicle of Corsica in the year MDCXXXIX at Florence
printed, but (as best observes Francis Mary
Florentinius in the Notes to the Hieronymian Martyrology)
with a pious rather than solid truth supported: while the Saint
he feigns in Corsica born, the faith to the islanders to have preached, and under
which it is not worth the trouble to refute.

[3] The first in the Acts mentioned place, is Carthage the city,
which by the barbarous enemies stormed, [She seems to have suffered] led away thence
Julia was. Baronius in the Notes to the Roman Martyrology
and in the Annals at the year CCCCXL num. 16 and 17 looked
to the times of the Vandals, when by these was taken Carthage,
and even to the year DXXXIII possessed. But a little
before they from Africa were expelled, Julia could
still a little girl by them have been into servitude sold, and after
twenty or more years' course to Corsica with
her master have come. And this to have thought seem the Brescia
Lessons' authors, when from the time of the body buried in Gorgona
(which itself from the time of death by some many
years perhaps must be disjoined) even to the same body's
translation to Brescia, about the year DCCLIII, they say
to have flowed of about two hundred years a course.
Because however S. Julia into servitude led away is said to have come
into the power of a certain merchant of Palestine, [in the 6th or 7th century,] if to me it were allowed
that time to contract to about a hundred and
fifty years, more would please the irruption of the Persians, who like a torrent
Syria, Egypt, and Libya having overrun, Carthage
occupied in the year DCXVI; and the journey with booty retracing, could
the Saint in Palestine have left, sold to some
Saracen, although Pagan the Acts call him, and by Pagans in
Corsica then the Saint crucified say. For since those Acts
long after the deed were written, easy it was, idolaters
for any infidels to come into the pen, nothing explored
of their superstition having the author, and yet wishing
this Passion with particular circumstances by his own grasp
devised to adorn. Certainly to the Vandals some earlier under
the Gentile Emperors times, do not suffer us to think,
either Carthage taken by barbarians, or the Gorgona and
Capraria monks in the Acts mentioned; of whom the former
the body carried away; nor than the Persian incursion some later
of the VII century under the Saracens calamity to think suffers
the antiquity of the Epternacensian copy, where Julia to the other
Martyrs added is found. There was indeed the island of Corsica
Christian then wholly: but nothing impedes, that the Promontory
sacred, to which with her master Julia, Capocorso
commonly called, at least for a short time came, should have held
of the same impiety the consorts pirates Vandals or
Saracens; to whose leader the same license made the author the name
of Felix, by which Julia's master he called Eusebius: neither
indeed that I believe from the elders' tradition received, but
equally as the words by which they are said to have used among themselves, for ornament's sake
devised. But the Saracens, a few after Chosroes extinguished
years, of the Persian Empire and of Syria and Egypt possessed,
the whole Mediterranean had with piratical skiffs infested,
nor rarely a landing made they fixed their tents, for of things and men
booty from the fields to be driven, the inhabitants within more fortified
places and the garrisons of cities themselves keeping, nor to prohibit daring:
and into such fell the ship which Julia carried.

[4] Further since Gorgona the island scarcely more than
30 Roman miles is distant from Corsica, [How the cult in Corsica began] it was easy that the cult of S. Julia,
already by the fame of miracles celebrated, be taken up by those, among whom
she had suffered; and to her churches some be dedicated, in that especially
place where crucified she was said, namely in the extreme of the island's
angle toward Italy, near the town of Nonza. At its
walls says Vitalis page 168 there gushes a fountain, there where cast off
are believed the breasts of the Virgin from her body cut, whose
water most salubrious is held and miraculous, and therefore also
far and wide is carried. By name moreover that experienced asserts
the Provisor of Leghorn's daughter, given up by the physicians about
the year MDCIX, and by that water's taste suddenly restored to health:
nay even constantly affirmed to himself to have been by the inhabitants,
that before the wall, [the same there a miraculous fountain] around the same fountain's rim led,
was smeared with lime, they were wont through the stones' joinings
to burst forth on the day XXII of May, from early morning even to evening,
milky together and bloody drops, to all conspicuous:
and the matter that even to boys most known was, since he himself about the year
MDCXXX such things examined, but now more rarely and more sparingly
that to be done. Adds the same Vitalis, besides that place's Parochial
church, sacred to S. Julia, in the very crucifixion
place a chapel anciently to have been, which by lapse of time ruinous
having been by the Faithful was restored; and another of the same name
church, surnamed of Tavaria, across the mountains near
Vigianello. A matter moreover especially memorable in the building
of the Parochial of Nonza done he says, namely that
when the site of the place more inconvenient and than just nearer to the citadel seemed,
the inhabitants wished it to make on a neck Guaita called, at an interval
of two hundred paces from the town: but all the material thither
brought, found daily in the morning to be where now the church is;
and watches set for observing nocturnal, was seen
a girl, who a cart by two snowy bullocks drawn with the same
material loaded, whom they did not doubt S. Julia
to have been. And certainly so special herself to the people of Nonza a Patroness
showed, that their town never any suffered from
the Turkish pirates assault, [and various churches.] although other neighboring places with their vast
loss them sometimes have experienced. In fine he concludes his
third book Vitalis, who wholly of S. Julia is, with this of praying
formula, I believe as used by the Corsicans.

℣. Pray for us blessed Mother Julia,
℞. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray. O God creator and preserver of all nations,
thy mercy humbly we ask, that
this day of thy blessed Martyr Julia with fitting actions
celebrating, with everlasting also exercise
we may rejoice.

[5] [The body translated to Brescia in the year 763.] Celebrated besides at Brescia in the Subalpine region is the memory
of the translated body of S. Julia from the island of Gorgona, and
at Brescia deposited in a monastery under the name of the Lord
Savior and S. Julia by Desiderius King of the Lombards,
at the prayers of Ansa his wife most magnificently
erected and endowed, together with a church, which Paul
of this name the first Pontiff Maximus, assenting
to so great Princes' vows, in the year DCCLXIII with solemn
rite consecrated. Who in this celebrated monastery established
under the rule of S. Benedict the same Kings' daughter
Angelberga as Abbess, … Endowed the same
Kings this same temple and monastery with many estates
and many also of the Saints' bodies: but
especially of S. Julia the Virgin and Martyr of Carthage,
in the region of Corsica to the cross affixed. Her body
with so great always veneration was venerated, that the nuns,
of the same Angelberga the first Abbess followers,
for the highest of so great a Virgin and Martyr devotion,
the prior Royal temple inveterate omitted, a new one
from the foundations of admirable structure built;
just as from the monuments marble in the chapel
greater carved, and from the following inscription above
its door appears: THE TEMPLE LEFT, WHICH
DESIDERIUS THE KING TO THE SAVIOR HAD ERECTED, THIS NOBLER
TO GOD AND S. JULIA DEDICATED THE SACRED NUNS
BUILT, IN THE YEAR OF SALVATION MDXC. Thus
Bernardinus Faynus in the Notes to the Brescia Martyrology;
in the year MDCLXV at Brescia printed: where also
he says in the old temple's foundation by a Royal hand placed
was a Title, which entire thus to be read he thinks: To Divine
Julia of Carthage, daughter of Ansolo, Christ's Virgin and
Martyr, to the Savior Desiderius the King and Ansa the Queen.
But Joseph Ceus of Leghorn, of the Congregation of the Oratory
to have been; but a sepulchral inscription in his epistle
to us written he calls it, with these marks expressed. D. O. M.
AND TO DIVINE JULIA OF CARTHAGE DAUGHTER OF ANALSO CHRIST'S
VIRGIN AND MARTYR T. H. S. DESIDERIUS THE KING ANSA. Where
the letters T. H. S. can be explained This tomb or
This tomb or This case he consecrates: and the last letters,
by age worn away, thus perhaps to be completed will be; AT QUEEN ANSA'S
REQUEST. And so the first church under the name of the Savior alone
stood, the second under the name of S. Julia. But
Brescia is under the Metropolis of Milan, in whose ancient Missals
and Breviaries of S. Julia the Virgin and Martyr the memory
is celebrated. In the ancient Calendar of the Breviary of Dol,
in the year MDXIX printed, is indicated S. Juliana Virgin and Martyr,
who seems this Julia to be. Various otherwise in this work
are celebrated also Julianas.

ACTS

From the Mss. Florentine and Böddeken.

Julia the Virgin, Martyr in Corsica (S.)

BHL Number: 4516

FROM THE MSS.

[1] [The Acts received from the elders' tradition.] It is written, Brothers [a] most dear, they shall narrate these things
to their sons, that they may put in God their hope, and not
forget whatsoever God has worked in his Saints.
For in those days, we inquiring
of the elders, what was the life of the holy Martyr
Julia, or what trophy of her passion she obtained the palm
of martyrdom; this to us with full faith of the deeds
they related, to themselves by their parents thus to have been related,
which we the same to posterity in some little page,
not so much by elegance of speech, as by simplicity most faithful,
to the readers we believe to be transmitted: lest perhaps
the faith growing old, in the hidden of so great a Martyr the passion
be spent, [A captive serves a pagan:] who from Capo Corso [b] by the effusion of her
blood in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ the whole province
[c] consecrated.

[2] In that time when the city of Carthage [d] taken
had been, then B. Julia from it captive was led; and by lot
into servitude came of a certain man, by name Eusebius.
But the venerable Martyr the Apostolic observed
precept: she served a carnal lord, not
as if to the eye serving, but as God with all power subjected publicly she served. [and strictly fasts:] And although a Pagan
had been her master, he admired so great of her
service the virtue: on account of which also in some way he venerated
the constancy of the same's religion. But when
of her service rest to her had been given, either to reading
she gave herself or in prayers she insisted. Therefore when herself
by food's wearing in the love of God she afflicted, by no means
by her master neither by blandishments nor by admonitions
nor even of one day, as is reported, the fast could she be relaxed, except
only of the Lord's Resurrection day. Pale was her face
with fasting, but her faith firm endured: dried up
her members with affliction, but her mind to heaven intent, with the words of God
daily was fed: she grew pale with the violets of abstinence,
she glowed with the lilies of chastity.

[3] And so her master carnal Eusebius, a citizen of
Syria Palestine, [translated to Corsica:] to Gaul with most precious merchandise
hastening, we not expecting what precious
he had at Capo Corso he left. Therefore when there
with the strongest oarings his ship by anchors they stayed,
seeing of one rite by the Pagans sacrifices there
to be offered, immediately headlong Eusebius with all his
to sacrifice descended: on the same day a bull
to his demons he immolated. Meanwhile while they in surfeits
reveled; but holy Julia on account of the error
from the depth of her breast deep sighs drew, it was announced
to Felix [g] by his satellites, that in the ship was a girl,
who the worship of the gods derided. Addresses Felix the Saxon
son of the serpent Eusebius saying: Why have not all,
who with thee are, to the worship of our Gods descended?
Besides I hear there to be a girl, who
the names of our Gods derides. To these Eusebius
answered: [for the faith to be tortured,] The girl whom thou sayest, in no way from
the worship or superstition of the Christians to remove I prevailed,
nor under threat to our religion
could I lead: and unless to me most faithful services
of her service necessary were, already her with punishments various
I had afflicted. Then Felix the Saxon says to him: either her
to our gods vows to pay compel, or certainly I will give
thee of mine four handmaids which to thee shall please better,
or the price which shall be taxed, only give
me her. To these Eusebius answered: If to me thy entire
revenue thou wilt give, it cannot to
the same's merit of service be compared.

[4] Then counsel taken the most venomous serpent
a banquet prepared, where Eusebius with cups gorged,
in deep sleep was lulled. Forthwith the Gentiles' throng
raging the ship boarded, and thence S. Julia
to the shore brought down. Then Felix the Saxon said to
her: [she is struck with blows:] Sacrifice to the gods, girl, I for thee to thy master
as much as he shall ask will give, and the bond of thy condition
I loose. But holy Julia answered: My liberty
is the service of Christ: whom I daily with mind pure
serve. As for the rest that your error not only
not I venerate, but even also I detest. Then
Felix the Saxon orders her with blows to be struck. But holy Julia
says: If my Lord Jesus Christ for my sake
spittings and blows on his face received, why not I for
myself with blows be struck; and for spittings, with my tears my
cheeks be wetted. Therefore the most savage dragon ordered
her by the hair to be tortured. The venerable of God Martyr is tortured,
is scourged: she indeed in her confession cries out:
Him I confess who for my sake with scourges was cut
down: for if my Lord for me with thorns was crowned,
and the trophy of the cross received, why not I
through the softness of my hairs, and through this banner
of faith sustain of this passion the contests, that
I may merit to come to the martyrdom's palm? And so the hasty
dragon, [affixed to the cross she dies.] lest of his savagery the loss he should suffer, immediately ordered
the holy of Christ handmaid on the gibbet of the cross to be placed:
and Eusebius awakened there she bore the contests
victrix the last. And when she had loosed [the body's] bars,
to the sepulcher made subject by her merits, [h] from her mouth a dove
with rapid sought the stars by flight. [i]

[5] There in the bridal-chamber of the cross her dowry full of faith
of confession she recited, and by the effusion of her blood
subscribed, the Angels standing by: and through them by divine
dispensation in the island Margarita [k] it was announced, to
the holy monks' congregation. [The body carried away thence,] Who forthwith
the ship boarded, and raising the sails, affording
to them a wind solace, suddenly came to Capo Corso:
and seeking thus they found, as to them
by the Angels had been revealed. Who with all reverence
taking down the body of the holy Martyr from the cross, placed
her in the ship: and raising the sails they sailed with
all speed, returning, affording to them [l] a contrary
wind. Then there met them monks with a ship
of the island, which is called Capraria, [m] affording to them a wind
great solace; and they wondered, that against
the wind's strength in the manner of birds the sails full
their way made. Who approaching and most diligently
inquiring, what virtue of God was in the ship, set forth
to them all in order as they had been done: [it is deposited in the Gorgona island.] and
asking from them of the Relics a benediction they obtained,
and returned to their own. But they came
into the island of Gorgona, and taking down the body
of her from the ship [they found her life and passion and
contest by Angelic hands written. Then
with joy was filled all that of the Brothers Congregation:
and receiving the body of the most precious Martyr Julia]
with joy great. Done were these things
on the XI Kalends of June in this place, where flourish the prayers
of the Saints, to the praise of our Lord Jesus Christ,
to whom is honor and glory unto the ages of ages. Amen.

ANNOTATIONS.















APPENDIX

From the Breviary of the Brescia Monks.

Julia the Virgin, Martyr in Corsica (S.)

[6] But afterward, when it had pleased God,
about two hundred years' course, [The body translated to Brescia] by God's
will inspired Ansa the Queen, wife of Desiderius of the people
of the Lombards King, hearing her venerable deeds
and miracles; with her desire kindled, ordered
her Body with due veneration to herself to be brought.
Then at Brescia the city, to the honor of that
Blessed Martyr Julia, a monastery with worthy worship and worthy
fabric constructed she dedicated, where the Body
of her most wonderfully she placed. In which place her
flourish prayers, and her memory is not abandoned
even to the present day: [she is illustrious for miracles.] and by her intervention
benefits are bestowed on all, who to her holy
Body, and most sacred solemnity with true
faith, pure mind, and holy works to celebrate convene.
Nor is it to be doubted by us, brothers most dear,
by her pious intercessions from sins and evils all
us the Lord to free, to whom so excellent of martyrdom
grace he willed to confer, if with pure and worthy
minds her we shall have willed to celebrate.

[7] Our manners therefore, brothers most dear, to the example
of this Blessed Julia, and of all the Holy
Fathers, [Peroration to her cult and imitation;] to correct and compose let us be busy: if to their
consortia of which is the matter, to come we desire.
For what profits to be present at the feasts of the Saints, if to be absent
it happen from the rejoicing choirs of the Angels? What here avails
for a time to be merry carnally, if not there it happen
perpetually to rejoice spiritually? What here will profit
one's flesh with feasts and the luxury of vices to nourish?
for there not only always to hunger, but even of
the finger of any poor man of water a drop perpetually to thirst;
and what is worse the soul and body to fire perpetual
to be condemned [it will be necessary], whence never it shall happen any more
to be freed. Of this therefore holy Martyr let us imitate
the examples, that from vices and concupiscences our we may crucify
members, that from all these punishments we may
be freed, and together with B. Julia and the Saints
all, by their aided prayers, in Christ perpetually
to rejoice: to whom is with the Lord Father, and the holy
Spirit, in three Persons, one divinity, equal glory,
praise and power before the world's beginnings, and now,
and through infinite ages of ages. Amen.

HYMNS

From the same Brescia Breviary.

Julia the Virgin, Martyr in Corsica (S.)

AT VESPERS

[1] The cause, the crown of Martyrs,
      God effectual of all,
      The female sex made
      The seat of Martyrs to obtain.

If endures what is fragile,
      To us it is admirable,
      So in the womanly sex
      The hardihood of Martyrdom.

Greater it befits to be
      The boldness of Martyrdom,
      If ever the fragile sex
      In the praise of the contest rejoices.

The Carthaginian Julia
      By torments undismayed,
      The threats fears not the woman,
      Which the cruel judge works.

In all things a Christ-worshiper,
      That she might be proved Julia,
      Of the cross she undergoes the gibbets
      Of Christ following the footsteps.

To the cross to be fastened she merited,
      Because through the cross she believed
      Sure salvation to be made
      To all the human race.

Precious is the passion,
      And admirable the reason,
      The handmaid of her own Lord
      To be condemned by a like death.

Now she rejoices, of the perpetual
      Reward the hope obtained:
      One of the prudent Virgins
      She sings in the Choir of Martyrs.

Blessed Martyr Julia
      Our great confidence,
      By thy prayers obtain
      Our crimes to be blotted out.

To God be praise, and glory,
      Through whom are praised all things,
      The praises, which to thee we offer
      To us may they succor quickly. Amen.

Sure salvation to be made
      To all the human race.

Blessed Martyr Julia
      Our great confidence,
      By thy prayers obtain
      Our crimes to be blotted out.

AT MATINS

[2] There is present of the Blessed Virgin
      The sacred natal day of Julia,
      On which heaven she ascends with renowned
      A Martyr laden rewards.

For an unspeakable barbarity
      Had plundered Carthage,
      From which the to-be-venerated Virgin
      Eusebius obtained by lot.

But the Virgin of Christ Julia,
      To the carnal yoke subjected,
      The kindly with chaste breast
      Faith kept diligently.

Pale was her face with fasting
      Vigorous her mind joined to God,
      Not bonds, not blows
      Feared Christ's little servant.

The Saxon Felix the wicked Duke
      The girl's mind tries:
      With arms fortified strong
      She knows not to fear the perfidious.

She on death's rack
      With scourges worn sings together:
      On the cross's gibbet leaning
      The enemy's Trophy she raised.

And a good end granting
      A dove very splendid
      From her mouth came forth,
      The way of the poles it sought. Amen.

AT LAUDS

[3] For the blessed Julia,
      At whose urn we stand,
      To us is present with joy
      At every time to be venerated.

On this day but most of all
      This to pursue us it befits,
      On which her members earthly leaving,
      She proceeded to the heavenly things

And examples salutary
      To us she left very many,
      Which if we follow strenuously
      Us to go astray they will not suffer.

Men, girls, little ones
      With diseases burdened most bad,
      At her request restored
      Are to former health.

Praise, Honor, Virtue, Glory
      To God the Father, and the Son,
      The Holy together Paraclete
      Unto the ages of ages. Amen.

AT SECOND VESPERS

[4] The blessed Virgin Julia
      Worldly leaving all things,
      Christ following the footsteps,
      Passed to the heavenly things.

From a Noble family
      A Martyr proceeded Julia,
      Sprung she was from Carthage
      By the splendor great of Africa.

Conquered then Carthage
      By the Barbarians' rage,
      To the island led of Corsica
      She remained a short time.

For what the Prefect wished,
      Eusebius this refused:
      Deceived at length craftily,
      He answered before the Governor.

Why, Felix the Saxon, art thou foolish?
      Why vain words dost thou speak?
      Not me do gifts turn back,
      Nor the savage of death wounds.

To pray she spurned the Idols
      The handmaid of Christ Julia,
      Ordered to be tortured with various
      Torments and punishments.

With limbs torn
      On every part the flesh,
      With styluses and little rods
      The breasts also of the Virgin;

Hanging on the cross's gibbet
      Prayers she sends to the Most High,
      My soul receive,
      O God of great power.

To her Christ appeared,
      When the dire punishments she bore;
      Of virtues preparing the rewards,
      The blessed of heaven joys.

The spirit sent forth to Christ,
      To the Saints' choirs is joined,
      With the triumphal laurel
      Of the heavens she ascends the stars.

The body bore the Monks,
      By the Angels forewarned,
      In Gorgona they prepare a tomb,
      O Christ Redeemer of all.

Adorned her the truth,
      And hope and faith, and charity
      The virtues and nobility,
      O light blessed Trinity.

The banner she bears of the Virgins,
      And of the holy also Martyrs,
      She flourishes like the lilies
      Among the holy companies.

She healed all the languishing
      In Christ's faith fervent,
      At the body of the Holy Virgin
      O consort of the paternal light.

Be to the Trinity Glory,
      Whom beseeches Julia,
      Who may grant us joys
      Through infinite ages. Amen.

IN THE TRANSLATION

[5] The King of the Lombards Flavius
      Illustrious Desiderius
      Founded this monastery,
      And consecrated it for nuns.

In the Savior's Name,
      Of the Virgin also Julia,
      At Queen Ansa's prayers,
      Exults heaven with praises.

The consecrated body of Julia
      Translated lies at Brescia:
      Adorned it splendidly,
      Of light the Creator most good.

Of Saints many bodies
      With it he brought as companions,
      Both of Martyrs, and of Virgins,
      O God of thy soldiers.

With the highest joy he placed it,
      In a royal monastery,
      Endowed with a great gift
      In honor of holy Julia.

Happy let Brescia rejoice
      Gifts so many bearing renowned,
      Of Saints it holds the Bodies
      Led through the world's climes.

Be to the Trinity Glory &c.
