This round sterling silver St. Julia medal is 3/4in. in diameter. It depicts St. Julia holding a palm branch, a symbol of her martyrdom. The medal comes with an 18in. stainless steel chain in a deluxe gift box.
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Profile 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 she 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.
Born 6th-7th century Carthaginian
Died beaten and crucified c.616-620 at Cape Corso, Corsica; relics at the Benedictine abbey at Brescia, Italy, which became a middle ages pilgrimage site