Born in 1192 in Flanders, Belgium, Blessed Juliana of Cornillon was orphaned when she was only 5 years old and her and her sister Agnes were raised by the nuns at the convent of Mount Cornillon. While very young, Juliana read the works of Saint Augustine and Saint Bernard. She became an Augustinian nun in Liege in 1206. She worked with the sick and in the convent's hospital. She became the prioress at Mount Cornillon in 1225.
She received a vision from Christ who pointed out that there was no feast in honor of the Blessed Sacrament and based on this she promoted the feast that became Corpus Christi. This feast was introduced in Liege in 1246. The office for the teast was later written by Saint Thomas Aquinas and was sanctioned for the whole Church by Pope Urban IV in 1264. The feast became mandatory in the Church in 1312. Juliana died on April 5, 1258 of natural causes.
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