Cyprilla

Holy Martyr Cyprilla came from Cyrene, the same city as Saint Theodore, bishop of Cyrene, whose memory is also on 4 July. She married but lived with her husband only two years, and was then a widow for twenty-⁠eight years.

Tormented by terrible headaches, she went to Saint Theodore, who was imprisoned at the time for the faith of Christ, and he healed her. From then on Cyprilla stayed there together with Lucia and Aroa and served the saint.

After Theodore's martyrdom, Cyprilla was denounced to the governor. Since they could not make her sacrifice to the idols, they hung her on a wooden frame and tore her flesh, and she gave up her soul. Lucia and Aroa took her honoured relics and buried them with reverence.

Saint Cyprilla is commemorated on 4 July, with Aroa and Lucia, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).