Holy Women Martyrs Cyriaca, Valeria, and Maria

Life

All three of these martyrs were from Caesarea of Palestine. When the persecution of Christians began, they withdrew from the city to a hut, and there they prayed unceasingly to God, fasting and weeping, that the faith of Christ might spread throughout the whole world and that the persecution of the Church might cease. By a certain slander they were brought to trial, tortured, and tormented to death in the year 304. Thus these glorious virgins were crowned with the martyr's crown.