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Cyriaca
saint
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 21 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
—
unknown
Died
249
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Rome at the Verano, Saint Cyriaca, who left her name to the cemetery on the Via Tiburtina that she had donated to the Church.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: she has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 21 August as the Roman woman who gave the Church the cemetery on the Via Tiburtina that bears her name.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 21 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q5200605 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Cyriaca (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.