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Hyacinth of Caesarea

2nd-century Christian martyr and saint

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Saint
name	Hyacinth of Caesarea
birth_date	96
death_date	108 (aged 12)
feast_day	3 July
venerated_in	Eastern Orthodox Church
Roman Catholic Church
image	Kloster_Fürstenfeld_Heilige_Hyacinthus.JPG
imagesize	250px
caption	Jewel-encrusted human skeleton in a gilded glass case labeled "S. HYACINTHUS M." (Saint Hyacinth, Martyr) in the Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption, the church of the former Cistercian Fürstenfeld Abbey in Bavaria
birth_place	Caesarea, Cappadocia
Roman Empire
(modern-day Kayseri, Turkey)
death_place	Rome, Roman Empire
(modern-day Italy)
titles	Martyr
canonized_date	Pre-congregation
major_shrine	Fürstenfeld Abbey
Bavaria, Germany

Roman Catholic Church Roman Empire (modern-day Kayseri, Turkey) (modern-day Italy) Bavaria, Germany Hyacinth (, Hyakinthos; died 108 AD) was a young Christian living at the start of the second century, who is honored as a martyr and a saint by both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. Hyacinth is sometimes called by his Latin name Hyacinthus (in ; ; and ).

Legend

According to tradition, he was a native of Caesarea in Cappadocia, a member of a Christian family. As a boy, he was appointed to serve as an assistant to the chamberlain to the Emperor Trajan. His failure to participate in the ceremonial sacrifices to the official Roman gods soon came to be noticed by other members of the Imperial household.

When he was denounced as a Christian, Hyacinth proclaimed his faith. As a result, he was imprisoned and underwent numerous scourgings and tortures. He was deliberately served only food which had been blessed for sacrifice to the gods, the eating of which was banned by Christianity. Thus, he starved to death in 108 AD, dying at the age of twelve. Just before his death, legend says, his jailers saw him being comforted by angels, who bestowed a crown on him.

Hyacinth died in the city of Rome. Later, the saint's relics were transferred to Caesarea.

While most of Fürstenfeld Abbey was secularized in 1803, the former abbey church is still in use. The church contains a jewel-encrusted human skeleton in a gilded glass case labeled "S. HYACINTHUS M." (Saint Hyacinth, Martyr). The skeleton arrived at Fürstenfeld Abbey at an unknown date. Writing of Europe's skeletons of "catacomb saints", art historian Paul Koudounaris alleges that they "could have been anyone, but they were pulled out of the ground and raised to the heights of glory."

Many places, people, and other entities are named after Hyacinth (or Jacinto, the Spanish form of "Hyacinth"). See the disambiguation pages in the "See also" section, below.

Hyacinth is not to be confused with the third-century martyr Hyacinth (died c. 257) or the medieval Polish Dominican saint Hyacinth of Poland.

References

"Jealousy that kills".
The decree of the [[Council of Jerusalem]] (a Christian council held around AD 50) included a prohibition against eating food that had been offered to idols (Acts 15:29).
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[https://www.atlantaserbs.com/learnmore/ThisMonthInOrthodoxy-July.htm Saints Peter and Paul Serbian Orthodox Church]
[http://oca.org/saints/all-lives/2015/07/03 "Martyr Hyacinthus of Caesarea, in Cappadocia", Orthodox Church in America]
Flight, Tim. (January 29, 2019). "The World's Grossest Catholic Relics".
Nuwer, Rachel. (October 1, 2013). "Meet the Fantastically Bejeweled Skeletons of Catholicism's Forgotten Martyrs". [[Smithsonian (magazine).

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