Juliana of Liège

Juliana of Liège (* 1192, † April 5, 1258 ) was choir woman and mystic.

At the age of five she was an orphan to the monastery of the Augustinian Canons of Mont Cornillon women in Liege, entered the convent in 1206 and placed in 1207 at the age of 13 years from the profession. In 1225 it became the prioress, 1230, she was superior of the Convention. Since the Superior General of the Order, they did not appreciate and sisters incited against her, she was expelled twice from her sisters; after the second incident, she did not return to the monastery, but lived as Reklusin.

Since 1209 was known for her holiness Juliana visions, often referred to the Sacrament of the Altar. A repeatedly recurring vision in which she saw a partial lunar disc, she pointed as evidence of Christ that the Church lacked a festival for specific veneration of the Blessed Sacrament. On the excitation Juliana, Pope Urban IV, a Corpus Christi for the whole Church; to Thomas Aquinas wrote several hymns for the worship of the Blessed Sacrament.

In Juliana's exposure towards the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) was introduced in the Catholic Church, first in 1246 in the diocese of Liege, then in 1264 by Pope Urban IV for the whole Church.

Juliana was canonized in 1869; her feast day is April 5.