Holy Martyrs Cyrus and John

Life

These holy martyrs are celebrated on January 31. Under that date their life and suffering are described. On June 28 the translation of their relics from Canopus to Menuthin is celebrated, along with the many miracles that occurred through their relics. Saint Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, prayed fervently to God to destroy the idolatrous impiety in the place of Menuthin, where there was an idol temple and where demonic power reigned. Then an angel of God appeared to the patriarch and told him that Menuthin would be cleansed from impiety if he transferred to that place the relics of Saints Cyrus and John. The patriarch immediately did so: he transferred the honorable relics of the martyrs to Menuthin and built there a church in the name of Saints Cyrus and John. From the relics of these martyrs there were healed: Amonius, the son of the Alexandrian city governor Julian, of scrofula; a certain Theodore of blindness; Isidore of Majuma was healed of liver disease; a woman named Theodora of poisoning; a certain Eugenius of dropsy; and many others of other diseases and afflictions. All this occurred in the year 412.

From the Hymn of Praise

The elder Senouphios fasts in the desert,His passionless body like dry bones,But as once water from the dry rock,The grace of the Holy Spirit flows from him.