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Cyril of Heliopolis
deacon and martyr at Heliopolis
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Feast: 28 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Heliopolis in Phoenicia, in present-day Lebanon, Saint Cyril, deacon and martyr, cruelly killed under the emperor Julian the Apostate.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 28 March as a deacon cruelly killed at Heliopolis under the emperor Julian the Apostate.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 28 March (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Rd5b919d5 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.