Martyrdom
The synaxarion sets Julian's martyrdom in the Italian province of Campania, where, by tradition, the governor Flavian had given orders to seek out Christians and bring them before him for trial. The young Julian arrived in Campania from his native Dalmatia, and when he encountered imperial soldiers he openly identified himself, declaring that he was a Christian born in Dalmatia who had come to turn idolaters from their error.
The soldiers are said to have beaten him severely and to have imprisoned him in a pit for seven days without food or water. The tradition relates that an angel of God appeared to him and gave him heavenly food, sustaining him through his confinement. Brought to trial before the governor Flavian, Julian remained firm in the Faith.
According to the account preserved in the Prologue of Ohrid, his courage and steadfastness moved thirty onlookers to confess Christ. Sentenced to death, Julian knelt in prayer, giving thanks for his sufferings and asking God's mercy upon those who would honor his memory, and was then beheaded.