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A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

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July 15 · Martyrs

Sts. Antiochus and Cyriac

Sts. Antiochus and Cyriac

A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

July 15
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Martyrs

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on July 15 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Menology of the Emperor Basil. Modem Roman Martyrology. Also Chaldee or Syriac Kalendar. S. Antiochus received veneration in the 6th cent., as we learn from the Life of S. Theodoric the Siceot.j The only authority for these Saints is the mention of them in the Greek Menology, and thence, together with an absurd incident it relates, they have been translated into the Modern Roman Martyrology, in these words: — “At Sebaste, S. Antiochus, a physician, who had his head cut off under the president Adrian; and as milk instead of blood flowed from his neck, his executioner, Cyriac, was converted, and embraced the faith of Jesus Christ. This obtained for him the glory of martyrdom.”

Feast days

Feast: July 15

Nine days · Free

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Antiochus and Cyriac's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.