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• Cybistra: A titular see of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. Ptolemy (5, 7, 7) ...
• Cyclades: A group of islands in the Ægean Sea. The ancients called ...
• Cydonia: A titular see of Crete. According to old legends Cydonia (or ...
• Cyme: A titular see of Asia Minor. Kyme (Doric, Kyma) was a port ...
• Cynewulf: That certain Anglo-Saxon poems still extant were written by ...
• Cynic School of Philosophy: The Cynic School, founded at Athens about 400 B.C., continued ...
• Cyprian and Justina, Saints: Christians of Antioch who suffered martyrdom during the ...
• Cyprian of Carthage, Saint: (Thaschus Cæcilius Cyprianus). Bishop and martyr. Of ...
• Cyprian of Toulon, Saint: Bishop of Toulon, born at Marseilles in 476; died 3 October, ...
• Cyprus: An island in the Eastern Mediterranean, at the entrance of the ...
• Cyrenaic School of Philosophy: The Cyrenaic School of Philosophy, so called from the city of ...
• Cyrene: A titular see of Northern Africa. The city was founded early ...
• Cyril and Methodius, Saints: (Or CONSTANTINE and METHODIUS). These brothers, the Apostles ...
• Cyril of Alexandria, Saint: Doctor of the Church. St. Cyril has his feast in the Western ...
• Cyril of Constantinople, Saint: General of the Carmelites, d. about 1235. All that is known is ...
• Cyril of Jerusalem, Saint: Bishop of Jerusalem and Doctor of the Church, born about ...
• Cyrrhus: A titular see of Syria. The city of the same name was the ...
• Cyrus and John, Saints: Celebrated martyrs of the Coptic Church, surnamed ...
• Cyrus of Alexandria: A Melchite patriarch of that see in the seventh century, and ...
• Cyzicus: A titular see of Asia Minor, metropolitan of the ancient ...

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