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Saint Cyril the Deacon of Heliopolis

Deacon and martyr
Heliopolis in Phoenicia
Feast day: March 29

Group icon: Mark, Bishop of Arethusa, and Cyril the Deacon. Image source: Romanian Patriarchate calendar

A life of faith

Cyril served as a deacon in Heliopolis in Phoenicia. The account places his death during renewed persecution under Julian and remembers that local opponents killed him.

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