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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Lucia of Cyrene

A woman martyr of Cyrene, who suffered for Christ.

Feast
July 4old style July 17
Reposed
3104th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Lucia of Cyrene suffered for Christ in the year 310, together with Cyprilla and Iaroia, the two martyrs who, like her, served the bishop of Cyrene, Saint Theodore.

Cyprilla was the first to receive a martyr's death for Christ. Lucia and Iaroia buried her, and then they too were put to death for confessing Christianity. The Azbyka page says no more about their lives.

The page gives the commemoration of Lucia as 4-5 July in the old style, which is 17-18 July in the new, according to the Greek calendar. Her name is not in today's Menologion of the Russian Church.

Commemorated the same day July 4