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St. Julian Hospitaller is the patronspecial guardian, protector, or supporter saint of innkeepers, travelers, and boatmen. According to medievalrelating to the Middle Ages in Europe, a period from about A.D. 500 to 1500 legend, Julian was a nobleman who was told by a stag that he would kill his parents. To avoid this fate, Julian fled to another land where he married a wealthy widow. In the meantime his parents went searching for him, and one day they came across his castle while he was away. They told his wife who they were, and she allowed them to sleep in her bed. When Julian came home and found two people in his room, he killed them both.

After discovering what he had done, Julian and his wife left the castle and opened an inn for travelers and a hospital for the poor. One night Julian risked his life...