Cyriacus

Cyriacus (+309), later canonised, is a martyr of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. He was a deacon and also worked as a doctor (exorcist). More precise details about his life are not available, or only in the form of legends. He is said to have cured the daughter of the Roman Emperor Diocletian (245-316) of a possession. During the persecution of Christians by the next emperor, Maxentius (278-312), Cyriacus was captured with his companions and died a martyr's death. First they were doused with boiling oil and then beheaded. His bones were transferred from Rome to the collegiate church of St. Cyriacus in Neuhausen near Worms (Rhineland-Palatinate) in 847 and later distributed as relics to various churches. Saint Cyriacus was said to protect against and bad weather in particular, which is why he very soon became a patron saint of winegrowers and was very common in many wine-growing regions, especially in the . Even today, the first grapes are offered to him in a chapel near Lindenberg, where he is said to have lived as a hermit, on the Sunday next to 8 August during the Cyriacus pilgrimage.

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