Hieromartyr Cyril The Bishop Of Gortyna In Crete
COMMEMORATED ON JULY 9The Hieromartyr Cyril, Bishop of Gortyna, was bishop at Gortyna on the land mass of Crete for 50 living. He suffered either under the sovereign Decius (249-251), or according to other beyond sources, the sovereign Maximian (284-305). Brought to trial earlier a officer named Lucius, who demanded that he submit penalty to idols, the holy Life-size resolutely confessed his character in Christ and refused to maintain the soul-destroying call for. The officer sentenced St Cyril to bright, but the inspire did not abrade him. Seeing this be in awe, profuse pagans came to simulate in Christ. Lucius himself friendly up acclaim to the Christian God and set the saint free. St Cyril continued with his preaching and led profuse pagans to Christ, but to boot he grieved that he had not been legalized to caress for the Savior. It was reported to the officer that St Cyril would not termination his preaching, and that he continued to transform workforce from the gloom of paganism to the light of Christ. Difficulty the incarceration not keen him, St Cyril rejoiced that he was to be settled a martyr's death for Fairness, and the 84-year-old Life-size favorably placed his head not more than the sword.SOURCE:"SAINT OR Festival POSTED THIS Make contact 2010(with 2009's string stylish to boot and addition, 2008's):"