"Of all of the disciples of Gerasimus, the most famous was St. Cyriacus the Recluse. St. Gerasimus died in the year 475 A.D., ..." (LivingOrthodoxFaith.BlogSpot.com source)
Who was a Christian in the Holy Land? references several Cyra, Cyria, Cyriac, Cyriaca, Cyriacus and Cyriakus named individuals, including this one also known as the Anchorite or the Recluse of Souka, confessor and probably the hegumenos whose entry is:
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"Cyriakus, hegumenos. Died in 566. An epitaph
in mosaic, which was discovered in 1911 at Jericho, mentions
Cyriakus as 'benefactor of the Church Nea of
Theotokos, which is in Jerusalem.'"
The Laura of Souka is also called the Old Laura or the Laura of St. Chariton on the southern cliff of the gorge Wadi Farah. The Laura of Douka (Duca Duq Douq near Jericho), Tekoa, Ain-Farah, Laura of Pharah, Herodion and Wadi Kareitoun are also mentioned in conjuction with St. Chariton and his many travels in the area.
The www.Zionism-Israel.com web site has some maps of ancient Judea that place Tekoah equidistant south of Jerusalem (31º47'N 35º14'E) and west of the Dead Sea. The Net.Bible.org site gives Tekoa's coordinates as 31º38'N 35º12'E.
The Who was a Christian in the Holy Land? site also has September 9th (Palestinian-Georgian calendar) and January 24th (Typicon of Saint Sabas) memorial dates, in addition to September 29th, in 3 of the 4 entries for the various probable duplicate references to this one individual.
The Cyriacus of Athens Wikipedia site discovered in March 2007 has been replaced by the . He is also referred to in greek as Kypiakos and has a picture so referenced at www.samoaexpress.org in a Year 557 (AD) referenced posting by MrSamoa:
- Saint Cyriacus the
Anchorite (also known as 'Cyriacus the Hermit') (Greek: ...,
Kyriakos o Anachorites) died. He was born in Corinth in
the year 448. His father was a priest named John and his mother's name
was Eudoxia. Further Cyriacus had Bishop Peter of Corinth
for a relative, who made Cyriacus a reader in church.
This Palestinian hermit, became abbot and died at the laura of St. Sabas. His biography was written by Cyril of Scythopolis (525 - January 8th, 559.) According to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1967, "... E. Schwartz has published the seven biographies written by Cyril in what appears to be their chronological order:
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the lives of St. Euthynius, Sabas, John the Solitary, Cyriacus, Theodosius, Theobnius, and Abraham of Crete ..."
The Lives of the Monks of Palestine by St. Cyril of Scythopolis
- Written in the 6th century, St. Cyril's Lives of SS Euthymius, Sabas,
John the Hesychast, Cyriacus, Theodosius, Theognius and
Abraamius are, in the words of Bishop Kallistos, "a primary source of
genuine value, highly influential in later Orthodox history, that bring
to life a key period in the evolution of the monastic life."
306 pages, 6x9, Perfect-Bound R310
ISBN 0-87907-914-2
$18.00.
Other Saints are also listed for ?unknown? write-ups.
One site references the Judean monasteries of Saints Hilarion, Euthymius, Theodosius, Savvas, Chariton, Cyriacus ,...; Holy Apostles Convent: Hardbound Publications
Page 289 of the F. W. Puller book lists
Saint Cyriacus The
Anchorite in the patriarchate of Jerusalem. Page 296 of the
same book has:
"S. Cyriacus the Anchorite was ordained deacon at
the age of thirty-six, in the year 484, the very year when the breach of
communion between the East and the West took place. He had already
been nineteen years living the monastic life. He was ordained
priest at the age of fifty-two, in the year 500, in the middle period of
the schism. Baronius applies to him the epithet of "sanctissimus."
([3]Annal.Eccl., s.a.511, tom.vi. pp.617,618, ed.1658.) He was out of
communion with Rome from the age of thirty-six to the age of
seventy-three. He died at the age of one hundred and eight, in the
year 556. He is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on September
29."
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- 2/2/2010:
New online postings reflect a Saint
Cyriacus of Bisericani and Saint
Cyriacus of Tazlau (Taslau/Tazlu), both locales in the mountains of
Romania, both persons having become hermits living in caves, both dying
in the year 1660 and both commemorated on December 31st.
- 1/25/2010:
A footnote to an unseen discussion regarding some ancient matter at
www.escholarship.org has:
[4] Note also the following papyri and inscriptions concerning teachers not included in the present register, ... in a document of 6 June 548 ...; RICM 231, Aur. Cyriacus, of similar date (probably a Christian); ...
- Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin:
The Compass Newspaper -
NEWS AND INSPIRATION
FROM THE ISSUE OF MARCH 27,1998 - "Here's what we know: The biography of St. Cyriacus, written by Cyril of Scythopolis, tells how Cyriacus and his companions found a woman named Mary (deadlink www.erols.com site) living as a hermitess in the Jordanian desert. She said that she had been a famous ..." - The Desert Mothers: A Survey of the Feminine Anchoretic Tradition in Western Europe by Margot H. King ... The earliest version of the life of St. Mary of Egypt occurs in the sixth-century life of Cyriacus by Cyril of Scythopolis but the longer and better known version has been attributed to Sophronios (ca. 638) and translated by Paul the Deacon ...
- Sep29 The
Wanderer - Maronite Saints - Maronite Research Council home page- 29 St. Rouhana the Cantor, or St.
Cyriacus the Wanderer 1Tim 3:8-11 Lk 11:33-36
"RUHAN is the Syriac name for St. Cyriacus ... Many churches ... in Lebanon are dedicated to him." - Sep 29 Feasts: Indiction to Nativity - Oct 12 & Sep 29 - St. Cyriacus - Russion Orthodoxy in America
- Oct 12 - Hermit of Palestine -Sunday 17th. Tone 7. Ven. Cyriacus the Hermit, of Palestine. (2 Cor. 9:6-11; Luke 5:1-11)
- Hathor 3,
November 12,
Season : Annual
Tune : Watus
Strict Abstinence
Theme of the day: Faith Synexarion: + Saint Cyriacus. He was the disciple of Saint Euthymius, the father of the monks in Palestine. He accompanied Abba Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem, to the Council of Constantinople. ... - ChristusRex.org has several entries that appear to belong to this long lived and highly regarded individual.
