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These Saints lived during the years of Diocletian. Saint Cyrus was from Alexandria,
and Saint John was from Edessa of Mesopotamia. Because of the persecution
of that time, Cyrus fled to the Gulf of Arabia, where there was a small
community of monks. John, who was a soldier, heard of Cyrus' fame and
came to join him. Henceforth, they passed their life working every
virtue, and healing every illness and disease freely by the grace of
Christ; hence their title of "Unmercenaries." They heard that a certain woman, named Athanasia, had been apprehended together
with her three daughters, Theodora, Theoctiste, and Eudoxia, and taken
to the tribunal for their confession of the Faith. Fearing lest the
tender young maidens be terrified by the torments and renounce Christ,
they went to strengthen them in their contest in martryrdom; therefore
they too were seized. After Cyrus and John and those sacred women had
been greatly tormented, all were beheaded in the year 292. Their tomb
became a renowned shrine in Egypt, and a place of universal pilgrimage.
It was found in the area of the modern day resort near Alexandria named
Abu Kyr.
Apolytikion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone:
Since Thou hast given us the miracles of Thy holy Martyrs as an invincible
battlement, by their entreaties scatter the counsels of the heathen, O Christ
our God, and strenghten the faith of Orthodox Christians, since Thou alone
art good and the Friend of man.
Source: http://www.goarch.org
Read lives of other Saints - http://www.truechristianity.info/en/saints_en.php
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