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Judas Cyriacus (Cyriacus of Ancona, Cyriacus of Jerusalem, Quiriacus, Quiricus, Kyriakos) (Spanish: Quirico, Italian: Ciriaco) (d. ca. AD 133) is the patron saint of Ancona, Italy. His feast day is celebrated in the Catholic Church on May 4.He is said to have been the bishop of Ancona who died or was killed during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He is also identified with Bishop Judas Cyriacus of Jerusalem (Saint Cyriacus of Jerusalem), who was killed during a riot there in 133 AD. His feast is celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church on April 14.The local tradition of Ancona has identified this saint with the Jew named Judas Quiriacus or Kyriakos.According to legend, the Jew Judas Kyriakos aided the Empress Helena in finding the deeply-buried True Cross. It is said that Judas suggested that three centuries of debris had accumulated over Golgotha and that the caves be removed. The oldest extant Syriac text of the legend of the discovery of the True Cross by Judas Kyriakos dates from ca. 500 AD. Its recent editor and translator says that the manuscript is "of great value for the history of the legend of the inventio crucis".
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