St. Julia of Corsica

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Born: 6th to 7th century Carthaginian 

Died: beaten and crucified c.616-620 at Cape Corso, Corsica, relics at the Benedictine abbey at Brescia, Italy in 763, which became a middle ages pilgrimage site, some relics later taken to Leghorn (modern Livorno, Italy 

Patronage: torture victims, Corsica, France, Brescia, Italy, Leghorn, Italy, Livorno, Italy, torture victims; pathologies of the hands and the feet.

Feast: 22 May

Born to the Carthaginian Christian nobility. Captured by invading Vandals in 616, and sold into slavery to a pagan Syrian merchant named Eusebius. When the slave ship landed at Cape Corso, Corsica, a pagan festival was in progress, and Julia was ordered to join in; some versions indicate that participation would have won her freedom. When she refused, her hair was torn out of her head, and she was martyred.