The Saint of the Day for February 12 is St. Julian the Hospitaller.St. Julian the Hospitaller, or "the Poor Man", provably the son of a French Nobelman, described as a friend and counselor to the King, was a popular saint in Western Europe - his life was recounted in the Golden Legend - and his name was attached to many churches and charitable institutions. It is his legend which made him popular. He has been taken as the patron of ferrymen, innkeepers and circus performers.
The Golden Legend thus describes his last days: "So it happened that thieves who were in that country came one night into their hostel. And God allowed them to kill them in the same way that he killed his mother and father. For one of the thieves took each head and with one blow killed both. They plundered all the cupboards but found nothing except for food. There were great miracles without end in that place and land. So many that, as it pleased God, their bodies were brought to Brioude. Gold and silver was made ready and God saw to it that there were sufficient gift to make a reliquary. And still the bones are there from that time in great repose."
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