In one of these riots, in 422, the prefect Callistus was killed, and in another was committed the murder of a female philosopher Hypatia, a highly-respected teacher of neo-Platoism, of advanced age and (it is said) many virtues. The Alexandians were always riotous as we learn from Socrates (VII, vii) and from St. The prefect had Ammonius tortured to death, and the young and fiery patriarch honoured his remains for a time as those of a martyr. In a disturbance which arose, Orestes was wounded in the head by a stone thrown by a monk named Ammonius. Five hundred monks came down from Nitria to defend the patriarch. This may have been the only possible defence, since the Prefect of Egypt, Orestes, who was very angry at the expulsion of the Jews was also jealous of the power of Cyril, which certainly rivaled his own. But they had caused tumults and had massacred the Christians, to defend whom Cyril himself assembled a mob. He also drove out of Alexandria the Jews, who had formed a flourishing community there since Alexander the Great. Socrates complains bitterly that one of his first acts was to plunder and shut the churches of the Novatians. Theophilus died 15 Oct., 412, and on the 18th Cyril was consecrated his uncle's successor, but only after a riot between his supporters and those of his rival Timotheus. He accompanied Theophilus to Constantinople when that bishop held the "Synod of the Oak" in 402 and deposed St. He seems to have been of an Alexandrian family and was the son of the brother of Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria if he is the Cyril addressed by Isidore of Pelusium in Ep. Cyril has his feast in the Western Church on the 28th of January in the Greek Menaea it is found on the 9th of June, and (together with St. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99.ĭoctor of the Church. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download.
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