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(There are reportedly more than 400 St. Cyriacus/kus churches in Germany.)

48º31'23"N 7º31'4.5"E [17 km (10 miles) SW of Strasbourg just before Rosheim] (map location and local reference)
:  (German: Altdorf) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in northeastern France.  The town has a long history.  Its most interesting monument is the part-Romanesque, part-Baroque church of St. Cyriaque, which until the French revolution belonged to a Benedictine Abbey.  Picture postcard with church steeple in the background.
43º37'N 13º31'E - NE Italy
[Chi-Rho (Christ in ancient greek alphabet)Christian Ancona]
Church of St. Cyriacus of Ancona (source) site

The prostrate body of the saint to whom the Church of St. Cyriacus of Ancona is dedicated is an unusual find.  The photographer, Bill Thayer, took the pictures during one of his trips through Italy as a favor to our Family History Project.  His April 30, 2000 email indicated that the Fair of S. Ciriaco started the next day in Ancona.

Ancona, Italy.  The Cathedral of St. Cyriacus contains a shrine of the Blessed Virgin which became famous only in 1796.  On 25 June ...

DOCUMENTAZIONE ARCHEOLOGICA E IMMAGINI Ancona - A passeggio tra i monumenti Una visita virtuale di Ancona, con accenni all'arco di Traiano (immagine), alle vestigia di un tempio romano e di una basilica cristiana nel Duomo di S Ciriaco, all'anfiteatro romano, al Museo Nazionale delle Marche ...
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..º..'N ..º..'E Southern Germany 32 miles (52 km) northwest of Munich=48º08'N 11º35'E on the way to Stuttgart=48º48'N 9º11'E ..º..'N ..º..'E -Bremen-NW

Baden Homestead (home-barn) & (1912) & keystone above archway   (J. CYRIACKS, M. CYRIACKS GEB. MEYER, 1882.)

The May 1998 issue of Smithsonian Magazine has an article of remote connection to our German history.  It discusses the Great Barn at Shelburne Farms in Vermont.  It's an extravagant example of what some of the very large German farms may have actually looked like.  We know that the house, barn and other buildings were all one building because of the necessity to keep the farm going all year round, EVEN DURING THE HARSH winters in the north.  We also know that some of these large farms were part of our connected Cyriacks family from the Bremen/Baden/Etelsen/Scharmbeck area.  [ 4/9/2009 update:  It appears that our ancestors were both builders and owners of these large edifices from their initial entry into the Bremen area in the late 1500s and early 1600s. ]    (see Oxyrhynchus) ..º..'N ..º..'E
Cyriacksring Straße (source) [need picture]

St. Cyriacus in Brunswick (BRAUNSCHWEIG) ..º..'N ..º..'E - northwest

Major seaport and centralized location for ancestors of almost all Ciriacks & Cyriacks surnamed individuals.  (local page) ..º..'N ..º..'E

(See VILSEN) ..º..'N ..º..'E -(Bitlis)-(Middle East)
Mor Monastery - H. E. Mor Yulius Yeshue Cicek ... Later he joined the monastery of Mor Cyriacus in the region Bsheriye (Bitlis) to administer pastoral service and engaged in a mission to seek Syrian and Armenian Christians, who survived the genocide of 1915 at ... [need picture]


Monastery of St. Kyriakus reference in discussion of ST. DANIEL THE STYLITE. ..º..'N ..º..'E -southern Italy-(overlooking the Ionian Sea)
[ This was moved here from the newly revised Cyriaca of Rome page. ]
Scta. Cyriaca has the following:

[ Footnote 91:  The bishopric to which Barlaam retired, was the old Locri, in the middle ages.  Scta. Cyriaca, and by corruption Hieracium, Gerace, (Dissert. Chorographica Italiae Medii Aevi, p. 312.)  The dives opum of the Norman times soon lapsed into poverty, since even the church was poor: yet the town still contains 3000 inhabitants, (Swinburne, p. 340.) ]

    ...  The name Gerace is probably derived from Saint Cyriaca, whose church was destroyed by the Saracens in 915.  ... Diocese in the province of Reggio in Calabria (Southern Italy), on a lofty site overlooking the Ionian Sea, not far from Cape Spartivento.  ...
..º..'N ..º..'E Cornwall-England ..º..'N ..º..'E -Jena-Thuringia- (17Km/10 miles northeast of Jena on the route to Naumburg/S)
St. Cyriakus church (source site) ..º..'N ..º..'E England
..º..'N ..º..'E USA   Cirák ..º..'N ..º..'E Hungary ..º..'N ..º..'E (see ISTANBUL)
[Chi-Rho (Christ in ancient greek alphabet)Christian Constantinople]   ..º..'N ..º..'E Hungary 50 47N 8 43E small village west of Erfurt (see Germany for more Cyriax- named sites nearby)
The December 1983 Newsletter shows the Cyriaxweimar 1 km sign and informs us that Karl-Ernst and Margret L. took a special route to explore the village.  But, it was too small to afford an inn at which to eat lunch and ask the locals about its history.  The coordinates appear to be due east of the mapped town of Weimar, which appears to be a southern suburb of Marburg.  An email received 4 May 1998 confirms that.
25 Feb 09:  The location near Marburg is confirmed yet again in a news report obtained online via a Google Alert.  A translation from German to English can be obtained via cut and paste and http://translate.google.com/translate_t#.
..º..'N ..º..'E Danish Art-Slide INDEX:  Danish Church Art  An Iconographic Index to Danmarks kirker, Part 2... Boeslunde, V-759.  St. Cyriacus, painted wood, altar candlestick.  1525-50.  In National Museum. ..º..'N ..º..'E -BadenWurttemberg-SW (35 miles SW of Stuttgart=48º48'N 9º11'E)
  (1st photo site)
The other two photos come courtesy of eagle1effi's flickr site.
The only town actually on the is Empfingen, which along with other unmapped sites, is referenced at the kirche site when Gerold II, the prince abbot of Muri, ...
    "offered a building, as well as land, and raised Dettensee from a castle chaplaincy to a full parish on May 17, 1790, whith the permission of the bishop of Constance, entirely separate from Empfingen and Nordstetten."
..º..'N ..º..'E -Gottingen-middle
St. Cyriakus Catholic Church in Duderstadt (site) & Duderstadt Municipal Archive & St. Laurentius, Stadtpatron von Duderstadt & Ein Rundgang durch Duderstadt & It's a Good Tip!

St. Cyriakus Oberkirche also references Unterkirche St. Servatius! (Maybe they have the story tying Deacons Severus and Cyriacus together!? ..º..'N ..º..'E -Eifel-W (22 miles SW of Bonn)

Adenau =Pfarrei Dümpelfeld, St. Cyriacus [need picture] & ..Wershofen=Pfarrei Hümmel, St. Cyriacius .. [need picture] Adenau site
Sakralbauten-Pfarrkirche Dümpelfeld - Pfarrkirche St. Cyriacus, Ä lteste Teile aus dem späten 13. Jh., im 15. Jh. zweischiffige Einwölbung des  Langhauses. ..º..'N ..º..'E -Koln-Wmiddle (20 miles SW of Koln/Cologne)

The following is taken from the December 1983 newsletter:

DÜREN, Germany.  My next stop after Bremen was this pleasant area west of Cologne.  My brother in Christ, Dr. Gertfried G., a chemist with whom I worked when he lived in Neenah during 1968 ~ 1972, now lives just south of Düren in the village of Kreuzau with his wife Susanne and daughter Ulrike.  Each year in Gertfried's Christmas greeting he would invite us to visit them.  He also said on one or two occasions that he drove past a CyriakusStraße street sign on his way north to Düren, so I had better come and check this out.  [ There are many streets throughout the world using one of the 1497+ variations of the spelling of our family name. ]

Well, I made it this September.  After Sunday morning church at their Evangelical Friedmeinde (Baptisten), we drove down that little street and found the reason for the name.  A beautiful church with flying buttresses was at the end of the street and was named after St. Cyriakus, a martyr about 300 a.d. ... ..º..'N ..º..'E

(See Nierst.) ..º..'N ..º..'E [Chi-Rho (Christ in ancient greek alphabet)Christian Egypt]

Saints of June 15 (deadlink www.erols.com site) has "... Eventually he was made abbot of the nearby monastery of Saint-Cyrgues (Cyriacus) and ordained a priest.  ..." (That's in Egypt.)

The Christian Coptic Orthodox Church Of Egypt - Historical overview of the Church where St. Cyril is referenced.


Die Nummer 5 des Cyriacus ist soeben mit 24 Seiten erschienen.  Angestrebt wird nun ein Abstand der Nummern von 3 - 4 Monaten.
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Cyriaci et Soc

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Cyriacsburg Zitadelle located in Erfurt - begun in 1480 and still going.  (click the following photo links to display them)

main entry & side door (John) & tower
    Gardens & postcard (Robert) & (gardens map)
(Local write-up)

Cyriaxburg(Cyriaci-burgum):VIII appears in a PDF file labeled:

    4. PERSOONS- EN PLAATSNAMENREGISTER. INDEX OP DE DELEN I-XVII VAN DE BRIEFWISSELING VAN HUGO GROTIUS
    De Romeinse cijfers verwijzen naar de `Lijst van geciteerde plaatsen' en het `Register van persoonsnamen, aardrijkskundige namen en boektitels' in de afzonderlijke delen

Cyriacusberg ?Business card? (from our December 1985 family Newsletter) ..º..'N ..º..'E -Thuringen-middle (25 miles S/SE of Gottingen)
St. Cyriakus church siteEhem.  Kanonissenstift St. Cyriakus, auf dem Gelände der vorherigen Kaiserlichen Pfalz.  Die Eschweger Altstadt wird überragt von dem Cyriakusberg, der das älteste Bauwerk der Stadt, den wohl aus dem 12. Jahrhundert stammenden Schwarzen Turm, trägt.  Einst stand hier eine mächtige Kirche, eine dreischiffige Basilika mit Apsidenabschluß und Doppelturmfassade im Westen und krönte ein dem Hl.  Cyriakus geweihtes Kanonissenstift.  Sophia, Äbtissin von Gandersheim und Tochter Kaiser Ottos II., gründete dieses Kloster vor 1038, wahrscheinlich im Jahre 997-Eschwege- -Spain? ..º..'N ..º..'E
The Sala Family Archives: A Hand List of Medieval and Early Modern Catalonian Charters (source) has (via Google translation):
    -9 --

    S-10, N-73

    24.3x27.7cm, parchment

    notary: [not notarized]

    Raymundus de Nogaria, his son Petrus, his wife Maria, and his mother Guillerma, all of the parish of St. Fructuosus de Castro Terciolo exchange an estate [honor] in the parish of St. Quiricus de Fagia with Berengarius de Vilario and his wife Eligsendis, of the same parish, for an estate [honor] in the parish of St. Fructuosus de Castro Terciolo. Dated 4 Kals. April 1317.


    -59-

    S-63, N-185

    28.4x51cm, parchment

    notary: Nicholaus Mathei of Vic

    With her husband Bernardus Clusela of the parish of St. Fructuosus de Castro Terciolo, Sibilia, daughter of Jacobus de Casadamunt and heiress to half of the estates [honores] of Amades in Castellter‡ol, sells her aforesaid share of the estates (held from the rector of the altar of St. Franciscus at the church of St. Maria of Caldes de Montbuy) to Petrus de Nogaria of the same parish and to his wife Margarita. The other half of the estate is held by the heirs to the manse of Casanova of the parish of St. Quiricus de Fagia. Dated 27 May 1365.

(See also Muntaniola for other parchments.) ..º..'N ..º..'E -Cornwall-England=52º30'N 1º30'W
St. Cyriacs church in Fowey-Cornwall (site) [need picture] ..º..'N ..º..'E ST. DENIS-France

St. Circiacus palace (9th century), now the city of St. Denis, 7 miles north of Paris, France. [need picture] 42º00'N 44ºoo'E SW of Caucasus Mountains in Asia "The parish of the University Church of Sts. Cyriacus and Julitta presented an icon to the Patriarch [ Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II, elected 23 December 1977 ] to mark the 32nd anniversary of his enthronement.  The icon was taken from the Metekhi Bridge to the Holy Trinity Cathedral in procession."  comes to us from The Messenger - The News in Brief for Monday, December 21, 2009.  (need picture)
This is the first instance of a Cyriacus related edifice in a country that had been part of the former USSR - as the internet expands, we should be seeing a lot more.  It's also interesting to note that the edifice is dedicated to the Saint who is referred to as just Cyr or Cyriac elsewhere, although that may be a function of the ??? to english translation process. ..º..'N ..º..'E
PLACES -
(1)Cyriakseidl unknown 50 58N 11 1E Erfurt SW suburbs
(2)Cyriakushof farm 48 44N 9 46E Baden-Wurttemberg
    & WikipediaSt Cyriakus church 48°46'33"N 9°47'46"E (near Ulm)
(3)Cyriax populace 50 55N 7 17E Nordrhein-Westfalen (Overath area)
(4)Cyriaxhof farm 50 47N 8 46E Hessen (Marburg area)
(5)Cyriaxweimar populace 50 47N 8 43E
SOURCES: (1) Hildebrand's Travel Map Federal Republic of Germany, ISBN 3-88989-131-4, 1994.  Click [H10n]²mapHelp to access the popup help file.
(2~5) U. S. Board on Geographic Names, Gazetteers, 1960.
(2)Rechberg, a town 30 miles (48 km) east of Stuttgart=48º48'N 9º11'E appears to be the only mapped name near where Cyriakushof is/was.
(3)Obersteeg, a town 24 kilometers (15 miles) east-northeast of Köln seems to be the closest to where Cyriax was/is. [ In 1970, while attending the U. of New Mexico, Ben Ciriacks found it on Map G-6081 C1 #5009.  His daily 'mad money' budget of 5 cents didn't allow for photocopies, though. ]


Cyriacus Flag The German description was sent to John Ciriacks several decades ago by Helmut Cyriacks.  Then, John's twin sister's husband, Chuck, translated it into English.  That translation was discovered by this webmaster on December 11th, 1998 and placed here.

Die Cyriakusfahne und der Windstoss

Im Frankischen Museum wird eine Fahne aufbewahrt, die vielleicht beim geringsten Windstoss in tausend Teile zerfallen wurde, so altersschwach ist sie schon.  "Cyriakusfahne aus dem Jahre 1266" steht auf dem Schild.  In der Munchner Fahnenkartei wird sie als die alteste noch vorhandene Feldstandarte Deutschlands gefuhrt, die nach dem Wurzburger Schutzheiligen Cyriakus benannt und auf einer sogenannten "Karrasche," einem grossen, vierradrigen Fahnenwagen, in der Schlacht bei Kitzingen mitgefuhrt wurde.

The Cyriacus Flag and the Gust of Wind

In the Frankischen Museum is preserved a flag that is so decrepit with age that it would probably crumble to a thousand pieces at the slightest gust of wind.  "Cyriacus Flag of the year 1266" stands on the Shield.  In the Munich flag card index it is shown as the oldest existing field standard in Germany, named after the Wurzburger patron saint Cyriacus , and was carried upon the so called "Karrasche," a large four wheel flag wagon, in the battle at Kitzingen.  (Translator note:  Karrasche, literally, is an ash cart.


In 1668, Cyriacus Buschmann was the highest ranking civilian official in Brühl; Sehenswürdigkeiten und Stadtgeschichte another similar site.
Bottroper Kneipengerüchte ... (schwebend) ... daß ein alteingessenes großes Bottroper Möbelhaus in zentraler Lage am Cyriakusplatz daran denke, seine Pforten in dieser Stadt zu schließen, falls ein neues Haus in periphärer Lage seine Pforten öffnen solle ... [need picture]
(translation: Bottroper of tavern rumors... (floating)... that a alteingessenes large Bottroper furniture house in central situation at the Cyriakusplatz remember to close its gates in this city if a new house in periphaerer situation is to open its gates...)
Cyriacus Hardesheim A. Enzo Baldini - Girolamo Frachetta: vicissitudini e percorsi culturali di un pensatore politico nell'Italia della Controriforma.
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Il discorso del cap. IX del Seminario («Sopra la religione del principe»), fu ripubblicato, in italiano e in traduzione latina con annotazioni, da Cyriacus Hardesheim in appendice alla sua Antiquitatum Puteolanarum (...) synopsis, Francofurti, F. Hartmannus, 1619.  Una traduzione spagnola a stampa di parte del discorso sul cap.  I del Seminario, con correzioni mss. che fanno pensare a bozze, è nella Bibliothèque nationale di Parigi (Rés. fol. Oa. 198bis, 94, pp. 3 n.n.). La traduzione francese dei due discorsi Sulla ragion di Stato e Sulla ragion di guerra è stata inserita (anonima) da Laurens Melliet, col titolo Curieux examen des raisons d'estat et de guerre, nella 2a edizione della sua traduzione di S. Ammirato (Discours politiques et militaires sur Corneille Tacite, Lyon, A. Chard, 1628).  Il Prencipe fu tradotto in tedesco da George Marzi da Copenhagen con dichiarato intento antimachiavelliano (Festgesetzter Printzen- oder Regenten-Staat, Frankfurt, J.J. Erythropilus, 1681).
Glocken in Germany, a now defunct link, referenced Cyriacus Churches. ..º..'N ..º..'E -Sachsen-middle (between Hannover-72 miles & Leipzig-60 miles)
St. Cyriakus Church in Gernrode (front) (more pictures)
stiftskirche-gernrode.de site (site)

The east end with the chancel and transept of St. Cyriakus is an early church built by Margrave Gero during the time of Otto the Great in Germany (961).  (Also referenced at Early Medieval Art & another.) in Gernrode (Saxony=Sachsen) begun by the Margrave Gero in 963 and destroyed at a later date.

Pages 25 & 26 of the Saalman book have:
"The convent church of St. Cyriacus in Gernrode (Saxony) (plates 23, 24) was begun by the Margrave Gero in 963 and perhaps completed under the auspices of the Empress Theophanu after 972.  Its continuous transept with side apses, forechoir and apse as well as a westwork with flanking stairtowers are a blend of Carolingian and international provincial features.  But the arcaded galleries and alternating pier and column supports, dividing name and aisles below, intruduce an element of color, rhythm and complication original with Byzantine churches like Hagios Demetrios in Salonica and still found in ninth and tenth century buildings in the Bulgarian provinces, as in Mesembria and Ababa Pliska." ..º..'N ..º..'E -Nordrhein-Westhalen- (20Km/12miles southwest of Paderborn on route 1 to Dortmund - Bremen is 96 miles or 160 kilometers slightly northeast of Geseke)

The St. Cyriakus convent church was built in 946.  (source site)

A statue of St. Cyriakus stands outdoors sheltered overhead from the elements.

The Franciscan Cloister is also there. 38º21'N 22º47'E - Kiriaki populace

THESSALONIKI-Greece Embassy of Greece - Washington, D. C. - Exhibition of the Treasure of the Holy Mountain Athos
THESSALONIKI ..º..'N ..º..'E JUNE-OCTOBER 1997
. . . It is not only the architectural interest which is considerable, however.  The interior surfaces of the main churches in the monasteries (Katholika) and sketes (Kyriakü), the chapels, the refectories and the fonts are covered in wall-paintings.  It is reckoned . . . [need picture]
..º..'N ..º..'E Churches in Grevenbroich Vollrather Höhe
St. Cyriakus
Pasoratstr. 11
41517 Grevenbroich
..º..'N ..º..'E German link ..º..'N ..º..'E -(which of 2 not yet determined) - (42 miles W of Osnabruck or 20 miles S of Hannover)
St. Cyriakus Kirche site (February 7th, 2007:  That site references a Catholic Minister "Reinhold Otzisk from Altena in Westphalia ... (who) investigated over  400 Cyriakuskirchen in Germany " in his compilation of the history of  Saint Cyriacus at the Baths. ..º..'N ..º..'E -Bayern- 27km (16m) southwest of Nuremburg halfway to Ansbach
Thanks to a picture uploaded to the WikipediaWikimedia Commons by Wolfgang Sauber on 23.09.2007, we have another picture of Cyriacus - the Description at the site is:

Münster in Heilsbronn.  14-Nothelfer-Altar ( 1498 ):  Mystische Vermählung von St. Katharina mit dem Jesuskind auf dem Arm der Jungfrau Maria.  Rechts davon knieend St. Barbara.  In der 2.Reihe v.l.n.r. St. Margarete, St. Cyriacus, Papst Sixtus, St. Erasmus.

[ The cross in Cyriacus' right hand may indicate that this memorializes the Ancona saint who helped find the 'True Cross' rather than the presumed Cyriacus at the Baths. ] ..º..'N ..º..'E -Eifel- (22 miles SW of Bonn) (source) [need picture] ..º..'N ..º..'E -(Constantinople)-NW Turkey

St. Cyriacus church & monastery founded outside the "Golden Gate" of Constantinople in the 5th century. ..º..'N ..º..'E -West Bend-Wisconsin USA (click the following photo links to display them)

homestead collage   house   barn & H CIRIACKS (John) & close-up

Claus Hinrich Ciriacks without a tail under the i page & CIRIACKSspelling page ..º..'N ..º..'E (40 miles NW of Stuttgart=48º48'N 9º11'E)
St. Cyriakus church in Karlsruhe ref to bells only [need picture] ..º..'N ..º..'E -Bath-England=52º30'N 1º30'W
St. Cyriac's Church in Lacock (Near Bath in SE Britain)
Church bells in England has:

2324 24.06.89 LACOCK (near Bath in SE Britain - image at right), Wiltshire
    St. Cyriac 6 bells 12-2-14 in F


[ Of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, the January 1976 Newsletter indicates that according to Dr. Enid (Cyriax) Houghton, it is considered to be one of England's most perfect villages and is well worth the visit. ] ..º..'N ..º..'E -Baden-Wurttemberg-S (18 miles SE of Ravensburg) [need picture of church and statue]
Lindenberg St. Cyriakus Über dem Walddörfchen Lindenberg steht im Wallgraben der untergegangenen Lindenburg seit 1556 die Wallfahrtskapelle zum heiligen Cyriak, dem Winzerpatron.  Die Winzer aus den naheliegenden Weinorten schmücken an seinem Festtag die Statue des Heiligen mit den ersten Trauben und bitten um gute Ernte.  Nach vorübergehender Unterdrückung der Wallfahrt zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts gab Bischof Nikolaus von Weis den Winzern der Pfalz wieder ihren Patron und gestattete 1843 die Wallfahrt.  Sie hat sich bis heute erhalten.  Cyriakus, der zu den Vierzehn Nothelfern gehört, erlitt in der Verfolgung unter Kaiser Diokletian um 304 das Martyrium.  Seine Reliquien wurden bis zur Reformation in der Nähe von Worms aufbewahrt.  Auch in Lindenberg gibt es noch eine kleine Reliquie des Heiligen.
(translation: Lindenberg (lime tree mountain) St. Cyriakus over the Walddoerfchen Lindenberg is located to the wine grower patron in the barrier ditch of the no longer extant Lindenberg castle since 1556 the barrier travel chapel to the holy Cyriak.  The winegrowers from the obvious wine places decorate the statue of the holy one with the first grapes/clusters at his holiday and ask for good harvest.  After temporary suppression of the wallfahrt at the beginning (of the) 19th Century gave bishop Nikolaus of point to the winegrowers of the Pfalz again its patron and permitted 1843 the wallfahrt.  It kept until today.  Cyriakus, which belongs to the (14 Holy Helpers), suffered Martyrdom at the hands of Emperor Diokletian around 304.  His Reliquien were kept up to the reformation in the proximity of Worms.  Also in Lindenberg there is still another small Reliquie of the holy one.) ..º..'N ..º..'E - (source)   www.lindewerra.de
"holy Cyriakus" is mentioned in conjunction with a former Catholic and now Evangelist church established in 1738 - the altar was created around 1500.  (no picture, yet) ..º..'N ..º..'E (Löbejün)-Halle(Saale)
This newly discovered site is notable for the ancient Cyriaci spelling - the very first one found for a church reference over the past dozen years.
Sankt Cyriaci Chapel (source)

Die Hospitalkapelle Sankt Cyriaci wurde vom Priester Tilemann Rode aus eigenen Mitteln für arme und alte Bürger Löbejüns, verbunden mit einer Herberge für Durchreisende, gebaut (1460-1464).
Die Kapelle ist das älteste Gebäude in Löbejün.
Wird nun auch als Konzerthalle und für kulturelle Veranstaltungen genutzt.
    www.loebejuen.de/

The hospital chapel "Sankt Cyriaci" connected by the priest Tilemann Rode from own means for poor and old citizens Loebejuens.  (built 1460-1464).
The chapel is the oldest building in Loebejuen.
It is now ?also? used for small concerts and cultural meetings. ..º..'N ..º..'E -RUCHHEIM-s (immediately southwest of Mannheim & south of Frankfurt)
U. of Notre Dame Organist Craig Cramer has played the Johann-Geib Orgel 1818 in the Katholischen Kirche St. Cyriakus, Ludwigshafen-Ruchheim. (no picture, yet) ..º..'N ..º..'E -Cornwall-southern England
A Short History of Luxulyan Parish
[dead link] ... set amidst scenery of outstanding natural beauty, is the lovely village of Luxulyan, sandwiched between the Devil's Stone and the 15th century church of St Cyriacus.

The only picture found is one for sale on Ebay with a URL almost impossible to duplicate but it shows the Full Address:
"Parish Church of St. Cyriac and St. Julitta, Luxulyan, near Restormel, Cornwall"

The Parish Church of St. Cyriac and Julitta in Luxulyan (Luck-silly-un), Cornwall, Britain, has a good discussion of phonetics, naming history, the Crusaders bringing back saints to revere and other esoterica.

March 20th, 2009:  Luxulyan Google book reference

The www.thomsonlocal.com Halls For Rent and various map web sites indicate that St. Cyriac may be the main street in Luxulyan. ..º..'N ..º..'E - northern near Hannover between Breman and Erfurt (See also our local Leipzig page discussion.)
Magdeburg Chapel in the State Capital of Sachsen-Anhalt has another historical reference:  805 (A.D.) - The story goes that a church near today's "Johanneskirche" was built on remains of an ancient heathen temple in 780/781.  It was supposed to be a Cyriacus chapel (St. Stephanskapelle) close to the river Elbe.  A bridge in that area is called "Stephansbrücke".
Landeshauptstadt Sachsen-Anhalts Erste geschichtl.  Erwähnung 805 n. Chr. - Der Sage nach soll die Kirche in der Nähe der Johanniskirche 780/81 auf den Trümmern eines Götzentempels entstanden sein.  Es soll eine St. Stephanskapelle (Cyriacus) hart am Ufer der Elbe gewesen sein.  Eine 2. in der Höhe der Johanniskirche - Stephansbrücke. ClickToSeeTheEnglishVersion   ClickToSeeTheDeutschenVersion ..º..'N ..º..'E [Chi-Rho (Christ in ancient greek alphabet)Christian Egypt] ..º..'N ..º..'E -Karlsruhe-SW (9 miles S/SW of Karlsruhe)
St. Cyriak Catholic Church in Malsch on the edge of the Blackforest of southwestern Germany. [need picture] ..º..'N ..º..'E -
Meisenbach - St. Cyriakus kirche. [need picture] ..º..'N ..º..'E -Spain?

The Sala Family Archives: A Hand List of Medieval and Early Modern Catalonian Charters (source) has (via Google translation):

    -12 --

    S-13, N-76 S-13, N-76

    33.5x43.9cm, parchment 33.5x43.9cm, parchment

    notary: Dalmatius de Spelunca, rector of the church of St. Felix de Torilione notary: Dalmatius de Spelunca, rector of the church of St. Felix de Torilione

    Geralda de Durius, widow of Berengarius de Durius, knight, having received as security for a marriage portion of 4,200 solidi (Barcelona de terno) the castellany of Torrell¢ and tithe rights in the parishes of St. Marcellus de Sedera and St. Quiricus de Muntaniola, transfers possession of the property to Alamanda de Muntaniola, her_sister-in-law, and to Alamanda's son Raimundus de Duobus Rivis, in exchange for 4,200 solidi (Barcelona de terno). Dated 3 Ids. May 1319.

(See also Fagia for another parchment.) ..º..'N ..º..'E -Aschaffburg-SW (24 miles SE of Frankfurt) St. Cyriakus Catholic Church in Niedernberg (site) ..º..'N ..º..'E -St-CYRES-Devon-Great Britain
(southwest England above Plymouth and west of Exeter)
St Cyriac and St Julitta's church was photographed by Derek Harper (source site)
Many churches in England and France are dedicated to this child martyr and his mother. ..º..'N ..º..'E -Dusseldorf-NW
The following is taken from the December 1980 & 1983 newsletters:

(1980) DÜSSELDORF, Germany.  And keeping up the good tradition of family information, Enid's cousin, Margret L., sent the four excellent photos of St. Cyriakus church in a village not far down the Rhine River from where she and husband Karl-Ernst live.

(1983) DÜSSELDORF.  In L's study with its mementos of when they taught school in Ethiopia and Lebanon, Margret showed a photo of the two-story building or fort & in Erfurt, East Germany, with Cyriacsburg engraved above the entrance.

Karl-Ernst drove us about 5 miles southwest of Düsseldorf to visit the beautiful village church of St. Cyriakus in Nierst on the Rhine River (see the 1980 newsletter for the photos Margret sent of their first trip to this little Catholic Church).  After seeing the church, we drove for coffee at a restaurant with outdoor tables overlooking the Rhine.  It was a warm September Sunday with half the Düsseldorf population out walking or biking along the Rhine. ..º..'N ..º..'E
BERGHAUSEN-Rothaargebirge-Koln-Wmiddle (60 miles E/NE of Köln)
St. Cyriakus Catholic Church in Berghausen (site) ..º..'N ..º..'E On August 8th, 1899, hurricane Saint Ciriaco (AKA 1899 Puerto Rico Hurricane) strikes the island of Puerto Rico and becomes the subject of a Final Examination question in an Anthropology course at ?NYU in Albany?  (The hurricane was named after the revered Saint of August 8th.) ..º..'N ..º..'E -Ludenscheid-Dortmund-Wmiddle (40 miles S/SE of Dortmund. St. Cyriakus parish in Rhode. [need picture]    ..º..'N ..º..'E -Italy
[Chi-Rho (Christ in ancient greek alphabet)Christian Rome]
Cyriaca's Caelian (Coelian) Hill Palace is now the location of the church of Santa Maria in Domnica/Cyriaca which is situated next to what used to be Villa Celimontana (OUTSTANDING web site) built (?re-built?) by Ciriaco Mattei in 1582.  (church picture source)


..º..'N ..º..'E -Emsland-NW (104 miles west of Hannover)
Tour/Allgemeine Salzbergen-Die Gemeinde Salzbergen- St. Cyriakus-Pfarrkirche ... Sehenswürdigkeiten: Rittergut Stovern, St. Cyriakus-Pfarrkirche, Naturschutzgebiet Keienvenn, Denkmalslok, Kolping-Bildungshaus, Heimathaus

A statue of St. Cyriakus stands in the church in Salzbergen, Emsland - an area due west of Hannover near the border with The Netherlands.  (The picture came to us via the pastor of another church in Gernrode, built in 961 and still there, which is the oldest extant ediface dedicated to St. Cyriacus at the Baths about which we know. [need picture] 1/15/2010:  (See Cirak/Cirák or this Pop-upFile)
www.sonningparish.org.uk (parish history) has:

    The Bull Inn, belonging to the Church, was originally known as Church House, a guest house for pilgrims to medieval St Siric's Chapel in St Andrew's.
www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm has:
    The organ stands on the site of the medieval chapel of St Siric (or Sarik or St. Cyriacus), which used to house relics of the saint.  The chapel was a place of pilgrimage during the Middle ages, but all that remains is the superb 15th century arch in the north wall of the chancel.
www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43208 (footnotes) has:
    222Leland states that there was 'an old chapelle at the est end of the church of Sarik (St. Cyriac) whither of late tyme resorted in pilgrimage many folkes for the disease of madnes' (Itin. [ed. L. T. Smith], i, 109).  There was a little book containing the Life of St. Cyriac among the possessions of the church in 1220 (Reg. of St. Osmund [Rolls Ser.], i, 276).
..º..'N ..º..'E -England=52º30'N 1º30'W Church bells in England has:
    4050 24.11.95 SOUTH POOL, Devon St. Cyriac 6 bells 12 cwt in F# Ground Floor   (picture)
..º..'N ..º..'E Cornwall-England ..º..'N ..º..'E -Straßdorf-Schwäbisch Gmünd-S (43Km/26 miles east of Stuttgart=48º48'N 9º11'E)
The St. Cyriakus church  (There's also a Straussdorf 33Km/20 miles southeast of Munchen/Munich just beyond Grafing on the way to Rosenheim.) ..º..'N ..º..'E -Hoch Schwarzwald- SW (96 miles SW of Stuttgart=48º48'N 9º11'E) St. Cyriak church (inside at source) - Nähe von Lenzkirch, Schwarwald
A more recent photo of the church and the St. Cyriakus - Church plaque was obtained from Schreibmans Kultbuch
(Tripod site) Located in the heart of wine country.  12,5% vol  From the backside label:  Von alters her hat man St. Cyriak als denjenigen unter den vierzehn Nothelfern verehrt, der gegen die bösen Geister wirkt.  Er wurde der Schutzpatron der Kirche und des Klosters, die der Breisgauer Graf Birchthilo im Jahre 993 zu Sulzburg errichten ließ.  Erhalten blieb die Klosterkirche St. Cyriak, ein würdiger Rahmen für anspruchsvolle Konzerte, die weit über das Markgräflerland hinaus hohe Wertschützung genießen.

Online translation

From age one admired St. Cyriak as that among the fourteen emergency aids, which works against the bad spirit.  He became the protection patron of the church and the monastery, the Breisgauer count Birchthilo let which establish in the year 993 to Sulzburg.  Received the monastic church St. Cyriak (site), a worthy framework for fastidious concerts, remained which enjoy high value protecting the far beyond Markgraeflerland.

Ben Ciriacks' translation of that translation: 

St. Cyriak is among the long admired 14 Holy Helpers who warded off evil spirits.  He became the patron saint of the church and monastery authorized for the Sulzburg region in the year 993 by Breisgauer count Birchthilo.  The well-built monastic church of St. Cyriak serves as the backdrop for discriminating concerts and is popular throughout the Markgraeflerland region. ]

(see another wine related discussion at Lindenberg) ..º..'N ..º..'E Cambridgeshire-England=52º30'N 1º30'W [need picture]
Joseph' productions begin (3 nights) in Cyriac's Church Swaffham Prior. [need picture] Church bells in England has:

    1304 8.04.88 SWAFFHAM PRIOR, SS. Cyriac & Julietta Cambridgeshire 6 bells 10 cwt in G
32º00'N 88º00'E Tibetan History (7) --
(1) The first period (the downfall of Tibet Dynasty to the end of Song Dynasty 1240) --
(a) The emerging of Tibetan Buddhism -- "If you look at the first names of Mongols at that time, then you would realize that Christianity was more popular than Buddhism: you could find more Mongols used the names as Marcus, Cyriacus than all Buddhism first names." ..º..'N ..º..'E -England=52º30'N 1º30'W 20.3.2009
St Quiricus and St Julietta church
(source) [need permission to display captured color picture] 48º46'33"N 9º47'46"E -Baden-Wurttemberg
WikipediaSt Cyriakus church [need picture] Cyriacus / Cyriaque / Cyricus  The demonstration analyses in this section of the Kabalarian Philosophy Web Site are not to be considered complete analyses, as additional factors must be taken into account for each individual such as surnames, nicknames, maiden names, date of birth, etc.
St. Cyriakus Kirche DeadLink 134.91.234.23/~gymgoch/faecher/erdkunde/schulort/cyriacus.htm
Abbey of St. Cyriacus & Kerkenpad te Dalfsen [need picture]

Another unlocated Abbey of St. Cyriacus is referenced at this Saint Abraham of Cyriacus web site.


BIBEL VERANSTALTUNGEN IM BISTUM ESSEN Ort: Pfarrzentrum St. Cyriakus, Paßstr. 2, 46236 and Bottrop | KJG [need picture]
Die Geschichte von Schwebda has:
Kaiser Karl der Große (Emperor Karl the Great) schenkte um 786 dem Hersfelder Kloster Güter zu Schwebda.  In einem Lehnsvertrag des Eschweger Cyriakus-Stifts von 1269 ist als Zeuge aufgeführt ein Albertus miles (Ritter) der Swebede. [need picture]
2.7.1 Rooms - katholieke Kerk Men raadplege De Archieven in Utrecht (Alphen aan de Rijn, 1985) }SA31{: de Collectie Rijssenburg (Rijksarchief in Utrecht) bevat veel Overijsselse Rooms- katholieke archivalia.
2.7.1.2 Rooms-katholieke Kerk: dekenaten en parochies
Men raadplege Hendriks, F.M., Inventaris Doop-, Trouw en Begraafboeken (Zwolle, 1988), toegangsnr. 124.  Dalfsen Statie Dalfsen, - ca. 1859 Archiefjaren: 1695 - 1812.  In 1859 wordt de statie Dalfsen de parochie H. Cyriacus.  toegang 124 Retroacta van de Burgerlijke Stand (D.T.B.) inventaris (This is the complete detail for this card type listing.)
Bulach Beratungsmöglichkeiten von St. Cyriakus, Bulach ...  St. Cyriakus, Stupferich [need picture]
           St. Cyriakus, Bulach stellt sich vor: ... Kirche-Beratung-Kontakt
Geschichten aus dem Norden - In der Lindenstraße sind das historische Rathaus und die St. Cyriacus-Kirche, 1154 gegründet und nach einem Brand 1929 erneut mit Feldsteinen und Granitquadern wieder aufgebaut, touristische Attraktionen.  An der Kirche vorbei, die Fußgängerzone entlang, gelangt man wieder zum Ausgangspunkt der Tour. [need picture]
Geschichten aus dem Norden2 Sehenswürdigkeiten: Kellinghusen: Fayencenmuseum, Historisches Rathaus, St. Cyriacus-Kirche [need picture] 53º04e'N 8º51e'E -Bremen-NW (20 miles S/SE of Bremen)
The following is taken from the Easter 1987 and Christmas 1984 newsletters regarding the St. Cyriakus church in Bruchhausen-Vilsen.  (modifications 1230 1500 1885):
1984:  BRUCHHAUSEN-VILSEN, West Germany.  Another St. Cyriakus church is in Vilsen, about 20 miles southeast of Bremen.  In fact, this church was the location of the October 1983 wedding of a Cyriacks relative, Gerda B., and Helmut R.  Helmut's family farms nearby.  The church is "Evangelic", or Lutheran as we would call it in America, but was built 500 years ago before the Reformation.  The minister told Gerda that it was named after "a martyr of Greece around 300 A.D." and many churches were named after St. Cyriakus.

1987:  Four hours driving brought us across Holland and northeast to Bremen on the beautiful auto-bahns in both countries.  ... village and Die Vilser Kirche of the Heiligen Cyriakus , ...  The church dates back to about 1218 when Graf Gebhard of Wemigerode, preparing to go to the Holyland, donated the kloster (monastery) at Heiligenberg, to which the Archbishop of Bremen assigned the St. Cyriakus church in Vilsen.  The monks for the monastery came from Steinfeld near Aachen over 200 miles to the southwest near the border with Belgium and Holland.  The stone walls of the tower in the original part of the church are 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick.

In 1525, the church in the neighboring city of Nienburg became evangelish (Lutheran) as did the church in Hoya, 6 miles to the east, in 1528.  The church in Vilsen made the change in 1535.  The monastery was closed in 1543, but the monks still were able to live off the income of the property.  One monk, Jobst Busse, was the first evangelish preacher in Vilsen.  As a result of the reformation, the inside walls were painted white as they are today.  One painting of an angel/saint so common to the walls and ceilings of German Catholic churches is all that remains of the original painting in Vilsen.  Other changes were the beautiful Kanzer (pulpit) with its Bible scenes in 1650 and the first organ in 1662 with a new one installed about every 100 years thereafter.  Major fires occurred in 1577 and 1791.  The steeple on the tower roof was added in 1883.  It is interesting to see so much history in one building.  Visit the Vilser Kirche if you are in Europe.  The village of Vilsen is known for its clean, healthy air and is beautifully maintained. 51º50e'N 6º40e'E -Duisburg-Wmiddle (30 miles NW of Duisburg=51º26'N 6º47'E)
St. Cyriakus church in Weeze-Dusseldorf (site) 52º20e'N 12º23e'E -Dessau-NE (55 miles north of Leipzig)
Weiden Regionalbücher über Thüringen weimarer heimat 4/1992 Landkreis Weimar, Geschichte von Magdala, Alte Salzstraße,Not-geld v.Buttstädt, Cyriacus Kirche. [need picture] 48º00e'N 11º00e'E -Bayern-S (127km 76m southwest of Munich48º08'N 11º35'E)
Thanks to a picture uploaded to the WikipediaWikimedia Commons by Andreas Praefcke in September 2007, we have a picture of the stained glass windows showing Saints Pantaleon and Cyriacus in the Pfarrkirche St. Pelagius, Weitnau.
49º38'N 8º21'E -Mannheim- (10 miles N/NW of Mannheim)
St. Cyriacus zu Newhausen collegiate church at Worms in the 9th century. [need picture]
Medieval Sourcebook: The Life of Burchard Bishop of Worms, 1025 ...  He likewise mercifully renewed the food allowance of St Cyriacus that had almost been destroyed by the negligence of usurpers and ordered them to eat together.  With marvelous ingenuity, ...  (See Worms in Lindenberg, below, too.) 51º30e'N 12º13e'E -Teutschenthal-Halle(Saale)-N. (40Km/24 miles NW of Leipzig)
St. Cyriakus church in Zscherben (flickr source)   www.zscherben.de

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