Therefore, all ye servants of the Heavenly King to whom she gave gifts or built temples, preserve her gladly with her son and his daughters, and may the immeasurable glory of the most beneficent family survive as long as the Sun drives his burning chariot.Īt the Entrance of the same Church, outside the Narthex towards the Apse: What quire is sufficient to chant the works of Juliana, who after Constantine, the adorner of his Rome, and after the holy golden light of Theodosius, and after so many royal ancestors, in a few years accomplished a work worthy of her race, yea, more than worthy? She alone did violence to Time and surpassed the wisdom of renowned Solomon by raising a habitation for God, whose glittering and elaborate beauty the ages cannot celebrate - how it rises from its deep-rooted foundations, running up from the ground and aspiring to the stars of heaven, and how from east to west it extends itself glittering with unspeakable brightness in the sunlight on both its sides! On either side of its aisle columns standing on firm columns support the rays of the golden dome, while on each side arched recesses scattered on the dome reproduce the ever-revolving light of the moon. Following by her good works all the footsteps of her parents she made the fame of her race immortal, always walking in the whole path of piety.
Not even thyself knoweth how many houses dedicated to God thy hand hath made for thou alone, I ween, didst build innumerable temples all over the world, ever fearing the servants of God in Heaven. For the works of piety are not hidden oblivion doth not quench the labours of beneficent virtue.
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Where do we not find that Juliana hath raised splendid temples to the Saints? Where do we not see the signs of the pious hand of thee alone? What place hath not learnt that thy mind is full of piety? The inhabitants of the whole world sing thy works, which are eternally remembered. Every country cries, every city, that she made her parents more glorious by better works. Who hath not heard of Juliana, how in her pious care she glorified even her parents by fair-fashioned works? All alone by her righteous toil she built a worthy house to immortal Polyeuctus, for she had ever studied to give blameless gifts to all athletes of the Heavenly King. Whence Juliana, the glory of her blessed parents, inheriting their royal blood in the fourth generation, did not defeat the hopes of the Queen, the mother of a noble race, but raised this from a small temple to its present size and beauty, increasing the glory of her many-sceptred ancestors for all that she made, she made more magnificent than they, holding the true faith of a mind devoted to Christ. But she did not make it as great and beautiful as it is, not from any economy or lack of possessions - what doth a queen lack? - but because her prophetic soul told her that she should leave a family well knowing how better to adorn it. § 1.10 On the Church of the Holy Martyr PolyeuctusĮudocia the empress, eager to honour God, first built here a temple of Polyeuctus the servant of God.
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