Cyriacus
Cyriacus (Greek: Ἅγιος Κυριακός, romanized: Kyriakos, Syriac: ܩܘܪܝܩܘܣ, fl. 303 AD), 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.
Patron saint of temptation on the deathbed
In the Martyrology
- August 8 Saints Cyriacus, Largus, Crescentianus, Memmia, Juliana and Smaragdus, martyrs at Rome