Berillus of Catania

Saint Berillus (Birillus) was a native of Antioch, ordained by the Holy Apostle Peter and the first evangelizer and bishop of Catania in Sicily. He died in the year 90. The Serbian Orthodox Church commemorates him on 21 March by the church calendar (3 April by the Gregorian).

A Serbian source calls him Cyril, bishop of Catania, a disciple of the Apostle Peter. Christians believe he had the gift of working miracles through prayer. It is told that by prayer he turned a bitter water, which could not be drunk, into sweet water fit for drinking, in a place where there was no other water in summer.

The saint's name therefore appears in different forms in the sources: Berillus or Birillus in some, Cyril in another.