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St. Cyrilla

Commemorated July 5

Feast day
July 5
Origin
Gyrene

About the saint

At Gyrene, in Lybia, St. Cyrilla, a martyr, in the persecution of Diocletian. For a long while she held on her hand burning coals with incense, lest by shaking off the coals she should seem to offer incense to the idols. She was afterwards cruelly scourged, and went to her spouse adorned with her own blood.