Juliana of Liège
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Juliana of Liège, was a medieval Norbertine canoness regular and mystic in what is now Belgium. Traditional scholarly sources have long recognized her as the promoter of the Feast of Corpus Christi, first celebrated in Liège in 1246, and later... Wikipedia
Born: November 13, 1193, Fléron, Belgium
Died: April 5, 1258 (age 64 years), Fosses-la-Ville, Belgium
Canonized: 1869 by Pope Pius IX
Feast: 6 April
Major shrine: The former Villers Abbey; Villers-la-Ville, Walloon Brabant, Belgium
Patronage: Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament
Venerated in: Roman Catholic Church; (Premonstratensian Order); (Roman Catholic Diocese of Liège)