The memory of the holy martyrs of Kyriachia, Caleria and Mary

The martyrs of Christ, Kyriakos, Calerius (or Valerius) and Mary, were from the city of Caesarea in Palestine [Caesarea was on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

- In the history of the Christian Church, Caesarea Palestine is remarkable in that it was here that the Apostle Peter, who baptized the centurion Cornelius, opened the door to the Gentiles for the first time (Acts 10).

Now there was a city called Caesarea Philippi, which was by the Jordan, and they were baptized, and were baptized, and dwelt in a house of lodging.

They would be silent and pray to God that the idol worship would be dissolved and that the faith in Christ would be proclaimed everywhere and that the persecution of Christians would end.

And when they had thus fasted and prayed, they were accused before the ruler of the land by the idolaters, and they were compelled to deny Christ and to worship idols, but they would not do it at all.

So they were cruelly tortured and in those tortures they gave their souls into the hands of God.