HE presided in the fourteenth and fifteenth councils of Toledo. King
Wemba, falling sick, received penance and the monastic habit from his
hands, and recovering, lived afterwards a monk. St. Julian has left us a
History of the Wars of king Wemba, a book against the Jews, and three
books On Prognostics, or on death, and the state of souls after death.
He teaches that love, and a desire of being united to God, ought to
extinguish in us the natural fear of death: that the saints in heaven
pray for us, earnestly desire our happiness, and know our actions,
either in God whom they behold, and in whom they discover all truth
which it concerns them to know; or by the angels, the messengers of God
on earth: but that the damned do not ordinarily know what passes on
earth, because they neither see God nor converse with our angels. He
says that prayers for the dead are thanksgivings for the good, a
propitiation for the souls in purgatory, but {549} no relief to the
damned. He was raised to the see of Toledo in 680, and died in 690. See
Ildefonse of Toledo, Append. Hom. Illustr.