Saint Cyriacus the Anchorite (also known as 'Cyriacus the Hermit') (Greek: Κυριακός ο Αναχωρητής, Kyriakos o Anachōritēs) was born in Corinth in the year 448. His father was a priest named John and his mother's name was Eudoxia. Further Cyriacus had Bishop Peter of Corinth for a relative, who made Cyriacus a reader in church. At the age of ninety-nine, Cyriacus again went off to Susakim and lived there with his disciple John. This period is full of several legends involving him saving people from lions or his prayers causing rain to fall.