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Martyr Cyriacus the Executioner
Also known as Cyriacus · Kyriakos the Executioner
An executioner at Sebaste who, seeing milk flow instead of blood at the beheading of the physician-martyr St. Antiochus, openly confessed Christ; he was himself beheaded and buried beside the saint.
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An executioner at Sebaste who, seeing milk flow instead of blood at the beheading of the physician-martyr St. Antiochus, openly confessed Christ; he was himself beheaded and buried beside the saint.
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Sources: OrthodoxWiki; OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Jul 16