Julian the Hospitaller

Occupations: Boatmen and ferrymen carnival and circus workers, clowns fiddlers, fiddle players, wandering musicians, jugglers hospitallers, hospitality ministers, hotel-keepers, innkeepers hunters, knights, shepherds
Personal circumstances: childless people murderers to obtain lodging while travelling, pilgrims, travellers
Places: Ghent (Belgium) St. Julian's (Malta) Macerata (Italy)

Saint Julian the Hospitaller
Saint Julian the Hospitaller
	Saint Julian, from a fresco; by Domenico Ghirlandaio;
Born	4th Century
Venerated in	Catholic Church; Eastern Orthodox Church;
Feast	12 February
Attributes	Carrying a leper through a river, ferryman, oar, holding an oar; hart, stag, man listening to a talking stag, young hunter with a stag; with Jesus and Martha as patrons of travellers; young man wearing a fur-lined cloak, sword, and gloves; young man holding a hawk on his finger;
Patronage	Occupations: Boatmen and ferrymen; carnival and circus workers, clowns; fiddlers, fiddle players, wandering musicians, jugglers; hospitallers, hospitality ministers, hotel-keepers, innkeepers; hunters, knights, shepherds; ; Personal circumstances: childless people; murderers; to obtain lodging while travelling, pilgrims, travellers; ; Places: Ghent (Belgium); St. Julian's (Malta); Macerata (Italy); ;

Saint Julian the Hospitaller is a saint venerated in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. He is patron saint of the cities of Ghent (Belgium), Saint Julian's (Malta) and Macerata (Italy).

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