Saint Paul of Cyprus

Memorial

• 17 March

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Cypriot monk. During the reign of the iconoclast emperor Constantine Copronymus, Paul was ordered to trample a crucifix. He refused, and was tortured and martryed.

Died

• roasted to death hanging upside down over a slow fire in 775

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Dominican Adaptations from the Catalogus Hagiographicus OP
• Heiligen 3s
• Kirken i Norge
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Paul of Cyprus“. Saints.SQPN.com. 16 March 2013. Web. 25 May 2013. <>