Julian of Toledo
7th-century Spanish archbishop and saint
Feast: 6 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Julian of Toledo (642–690) was born in Toledo, Hispania. He was well educated at the cathedral school, was a monk and later abbot at Agali, a spiritual student of Saint Eugene II, and archbishop of Toledo. He was the first bishop to have primacy over the entire Iberian Peninsula—a position he has been accused of securing by being complicit in 680 in the supposed poisoning of Wamba, king of the Visigoths—and he helped centralize the Iberian Church in Toledo. His elevation to the position of primate of the Visigothic church was a source of great unhappiness among the kingdom's clergy. And his views regarding the doctrine of the Trinity proved distressing to the Vatican.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Eugenius III of Toledo Saint“He is called Eugenius secundus (Eugene the second) in the biography of Archbishop Julian of Toledo by a certain Felix, but in later histories he is sometimes numbered Eugenius III when a legendary martyr and first bishop of Toledo is included.” — Wikipedia
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, 8 March — Butler's Lives contents for 8 March: 'St Julian of Toledo, archbishop ... 524'. Seventh-century archbishop of Toledo honoured as a saint; no URL held locally.
- Wikidata Q722563 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Julian of Toledo (CC BY-SA)
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