Saint Cyricus and his mother, Saint Julitta are venerated as early Christian martyrs who were put to death in AD 304. Julitta and her three-year-old son Cyricus had fled to Tarsus and were identified as Christians. Julitta was tortured and Cyricus, being held by the governor of Tarsus, scratched the governor's face and was killed by being thrown down the stairs. Julitta did not weep but celebrated the fact that her son had earned the crown of martyrdom. In anger, the governor decreed that Julitta's sides should be ripped apart with hooks, and then she was beheaded. Her body, along with that of Cyricus, was flung outside the city on the heap of bodies belonging to criminals, but two maids rescued the corpses of the mother and child and buried them in a nearby field. The Old Believers revere Kirik and Julitta as their patrons, considering themselves just like them, persecuted for their faith. In Russian folk traditions, the Feast Day of Cyricus and Julitta - July 14 (27) was considered to be the middle of summer. The following folk proverb is associated with the saints: “Don't reap on Cyricus’s Day - everything is wet, it’s pouring rain!”
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- ID#: 372-102-070-SP1
- Size: 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (26 x 22 cm)
- Age: ca. 1880s
- Origin: Provincial Russia
- Materials: Egg tempera on silvered and gessoed wood
- Price: $575
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