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Cyriacus

Christian martyr

SaintPre-congregation

Feast: 8 August (1962 Missal, commemoration) · not on the current Roman calendar

Born
300
Died
303
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Cyriacus (Greek: Ἅγιος Κυριακός, romanized: Kyriakos, Syriac: ܩܘܪܝܩܘܣ, fl. 303 AD), sometimes Anglicized as Cyriac, according to Christian tradition, is a Christian martyr who was killed in the Diocletianic Persecution. He is one of twenty-seven saints, most of them martyrs, who bear this name, of whom only seven are honoured by a specific mention of their names in Roman Martyrology.

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The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources
  • Wikidata Q508214 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Cyriacus (CC BY-SA)

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