Stained glass in St Materiana's Church, Tintagel (5631)

Saint Julitta, or Saint Juliot, is a male

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saint to whom two Cornish churches are dedicated. He is believed to have settled at the site of

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at the end of the 5th century and established a small monastic community. In some accounts he is a member of the Children of Brychan and St Nectan and the holy female

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, St Keyne, are thought to have been his companions. He is the patron of the parish churches of

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and of Lanteglos by Camelford. The Norman chapel of Tintagel Castle is dedicated to St Julitta. At Jetwells near Camelford is a holy well. Jetwells derives from "Juliot's well".''The Cornish Church Guide'' (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 134 He should not be confused with either of two early female martyrs called Julitta. One was Julitta of

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, a widow venerated by Saint Basil who left a testimony of her life on the 70th anniversary of her death. The other Julitta, known as Julitta of Tarsus, also a widow, is associated with the three year old child, St

Cyricus Cyricus ( el, Κήρυκος, am, ቂርቆስ, arc, ܡܪܝ ܩܘܪܝܩܘܣ ܣܗܕܐ ''Mar Quriaqos Sahada''; also Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus, Cyr), and his mother, Julitta ( el, Ἰουλίττα, am, እየሉጣ arc, ܝܘܠܝܛܐ, ''Yul ...

. She was his mother. All three are martyrs in the 3rd or 4th century and considered saints both in the Eastern and the Western Rite Christian churches. Cyricus is known as St. Cyr in France.

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*Radford, C. A. Ralegh (1939) ''Tintagel Castle, Cornwall''. London: H.M.S.O.; p. 7

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