Virginmartyr Juliana of Nicomedia, and with her 500 Men and 150 Women

According to her Life, Juliana was the daughter of a pagan nobleman of Nicomedia and was betrothed to Eleusius, who became prefect of the city. She refused to marry him unless he became a Christian, and he had her tried and tortured. The Life tells that she endured the torments unharmed and that about five hundred men and more than a hundred women who watched were converted and beheaded.

Juliana herself was beheaded about 304, in the persecution of Diocletian. Her relics were later brought to Italy. In the West she is remembered on 16 February, and she was much venerated in medieval England.