Feast August 8
Cyriacus
Martyr, patron of temptation on the deathbed · Feast August 8
Biography
Cyriacus, 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.
Feast day
August 8
Patronage
temptation on the deathbed
viticulture (in the Electorate of the Palatinate
Saint-Cierges
Switzerland
eye disease)
Death date
303
Canonization status
Canonized
Feast month
8
Feast day of month
8
