The story of
Saint Juliana, from the Golden Legends, edited by F.S. Ellis (1900)
- Saint Juliana is a good Christian woman. So when her father tells her to marry a pagan, she refuses.
- "Provost" (prospective husband) finds her so beautiful, he wants to know why she has refused.
- She says she will not marry a pagan
- He says he can defy his emperor
- She says she can defy her "emperor", Jesus Christ, who is in fact immortal and therefore scarier.
- Provost has her tortured
- While being tortured, a devil disguised as an angel comes to her
- He tells her she will be saved if she sacrifices to idols
- She is told by a voice from God that she should hold him and demand who he is
- He confesses he is son of Beelzebub, sent to turn Christians against God
- If he doesn't turn someone against God, he is tortured by his Father
- Juliana refuses to denounce God, frees the devil
- The next day, she looks fine when she is presented before the Provost.
- The Provost tries to kill her twice, both time she is saved by an angel who converts the people in the crowd (save the Provost)
- The third time he tries to kill her, the devil comes and tells him she must have no mercy, and he vanishes to avoid being held by her again
- Before she is beheaded, she tells the newly converted crowd to pray for her
- She is killed
- The provost gets on a ship and he and his men are killed by a terrible storm
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