Holy Martyrs
Theophilus and Cyril
Martyrs of Caesarea in Cappadocia, commemorated in the Syriac Martyrology of 411.
- Feast
- November 3old style November 16
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Caesarea in Cappadocia
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Theophilus and Cyril were martyrs of Caesarea in Cappadocia, saints of the undivided Church.
The Syriac Martyrology of 411 commemorates them on 3 November, by the Julian calendar (old style), "according to the Greeks", on the same day as a third martyr of the city, Germanus. No other account of their lives or deaths survives.
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