Cyrus was a physician of Alexandria who had used the opportunities of his profession to bring many sick people to the faith. John was an Arabian. They heard that a lady named Athanasia and her three daughters, Theodosia, Theoctista and Eudoxia, the eldest only fifteen, were suffering torments for Christ at Canopus in Egypt, and they went there to comfort them.

They were arrested themselves and cruelly beaten. In front of the mother and her daughters, their sides were burned with torches and salt and vinegar were poured into their wounds. The four women were tortured after them. At last the four women were beheaded, and a few days later Cyrus and John were beheaded too, on 31 January.

Thin entry · the 1914 book gives only 124 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

Cyrus, a physician of Alexandria, who, by the opportunities which his profession gave him, had converted many sick persons to the faith; and John, an Arabian, hearing that a lady, called Athanasia, and her three daughters, Theodosia, Theoctista and Eudoxia, of whom the eldest was only fifteen years of age, had suffered torments at Canope in Egypt for the name of Christ, went thither to console them. They were themselves apprehended and cruelly beaten; their sides were burnt with torches, and salt and vinegar were poured into their wounds in the presence of Anastasia and her daughters, who were also tortured after them.