Saint Julius the Veteran
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Julius the Veteran (255-302), also known as Julius of Dorostorum, is a Catholic saint. His feast day is May 27.
According to the tradition, Julius was a Roman soldier for 27 years and a veteran of severn military campaigns, who converted to Christianity. Julius was persecuted and the examining prefect, Maximus, asked him to sacrifice as a symbolic denunciation of his faith. Julius declined, and he, and seven others were beheaded in Dorostorum (today the town of Silistra in Bulgaria) and died as martyrs.