Biography
Julia of Corsica
About Julia of Corsica
Julia of Corsica is remembered in a martyr tradition as an enslaved Christian woman from Carthage. The German Catholic calendar describes her being taken to Corsica and suffering death there for her faith, placing the story around 250.
The Diocese of Brescia draws a careful boundary around the historical record. Its account says that reliable sources concern the movement of the martyr's relics, which reached the Benedictine monastery of San Salvatore in 763. The monastery later became known as Santa Giulia.
The Brescia account follows the relics through later transfers and records their veneration at the church of Santa Giulia from May 24, 1969. This later history is better documented than the details of Julia's individual life.
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