Saint Cyriacus and Saint Paula
MARTYRS IN MALAGA, SPAIN (300).
Martyrs in Malaga
Cyriacus and the virgin Paula were martyred in Malaga around the year 300 during the persecution of Diocletian. Having refused to abjure their faith despite torture, they were condemned to be stoned. They are the patron saints of the city of Malaga, which celebrates their memory every year.
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SAINT CYRIACUS AND SAINT PAULA,
MARTYRS IN MALAGA, SPAIN (300).
The context of the Great Persecution
Under the emperors Diocletian and Maximian, a violent persecution struck the Empire, particularly Spain and Baetica, resulting in thousands of martyrs.
During the ten years that the bloody persecution of Dio cletian an Dioclétien Roman emperor under whom the martyrdom is said to have taken place. d Maxim ian exer Maximien Roman emperor associated with the persecutions. cised its fury and rage against all the members of Christ, there was such a great multitude of the faithful who triumphed by dying for the faith that, in a single month, seventeen thousand obtained the palm of martyrdom. Then Spain counted a host of valiant soldiers of Christ: Baetica shon e with Bétique Roman province in southern Spain. the brilliant confession of its Saints; the prisons and penal colonies were filled with legions of Martyrs, the tribunals resounded with the glory of the Lord, the idols were rejected with disdain, and men worthy of God, prodigal with their lives, consecrated their blood to Him, which they shed for the glory of His name.
The martyrdom by stoning
Cyriacus and the virgin Paula are brought before a judge in Malaga and, refusing to renounce their faith, die by stoning around the year 300.
The most illustrious athletes in this persecution were Cyr iacus an Cyriaque Roman deacon and principal martyr of the narrative. d the virgin P aula. Paule Virgin and martyr in Malaga, companion of Saint Cyriacus. Brought to the tribunal of the pagan judge Malaga City in Spain, site of martyrdom and center of the cult of the saints. in Malaga, they gave an account of their faith and suffered countless tortures and cruel torments to defend it. As nothing could make them renounce Jesus Christ, the impious judge ordered that they be stoned. Immediately, the holy Martyrs ran full of joy to the combat, and received with intrepidity a hail of stones that crushed their bodies, and under which they fell buried. The stones were still striking their broken limbs when they rendered their souls to God, around the year of salvation 300, on June 18. The noble city of Malaga was crimsoned with their venerable blood. Later, this city, after having been for six hundred and seventy years under the power of the perfidious Mohammedans, returned under Christian rule on August 19 of the year of the Lord 1487, under the reign of the Catholic mona rchs Ferd Ferdinand King of Aragon and instigator of the reorganization of the Inquisition. inan d and Is Isabelle Queen of Castile, wife of Ferdinand. abella, who, on the same day, taking possession of the most noble city, entered it in triumph. The two sovereigns, after having purified the city of Muslim defilements, rendered joyful thanks to God and informed Innocent VIII, who then occupied the Apostoli Innocent VIII Pope who canonized Leopold IV in 1485. c See, of their victory. In the joy that this triumph and the restoration of the faith in a place it had once possessed caused him, the Pontiff addressed a rescript to Their Catholic Majesties in which he said that the city of Malaga was consecrated by the martyrdom of Saint Cyriacus and Saint Paula, stoned in the past like Stephen, the first martyr. This i Étienne Protomartyr to whom Trond dedicated his property and a church. s why the inhabitants of Malaga placed themselves under the tutelage and patronage of the two Saints, and built a church under their invocation. On their feast day, which is very renowned, the clergy and the senate in a body go solemnly to this basilica; and every year, in the presence of the Lord, they celebrate with extraordinary rejoicings the memory of the most precious death of these holy Martyrs.
Reconquest of Malaga and devotion
After the recapture of Malaga by the Catholic Monarchs in 1487, the cult of the two saints was restored with the approval of Pope Innocent VIII.
Legends of the Roman Breviar Légendes du Bréviaire romain Liturgical book containing accounts of the lives of the saints. y.
Source of the narrative
The text is derived from the legends of the Roman Breviary.
Legends of the Roman Breviary.
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