SAINT
saint-cyriacus
A saint of the Catholic Church
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
08-08
patronages
- 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
