Cyrille of Jerusalem

See also: Cyrille

Holy Cyrille of Jerusalem (V. 315? - 386) is a important Théologien of the Church of the first centuries. Festival the March 18th.

Born with Jerusalem, it becomes patriarch of this city in 350 and has unceasingly with fights the Ariens. L is deposited in 357 by the intrigues of Acacius, bishop of Césarée, and is recalled to the commencemnt of the reign of Julien.

Exiled again by the emperor Valens, it goes up on its seat only after the death of this prince in 378, and preserves its place until its characteristic died in 386.

It is révéré like saint as well by the orthodoxe ones as by the catholic . In 1883, it is proclaimed Doctors of the Church by the pope Leon XIII.

Its Œuvres was several times published, in particular by dom Antoine-Augustin Touttée and dom Maran, with Paris, 1720, folio, Greek-Latin; by W-K Reischl and J. Rupp, with Munich, 1848 and 1860, 2 volumes in-8, and by the abbot Jacques-Paul Migne in the vol. 33 of its Patrology , 1857 - 1860.

It are composed mainly of Catéchèses or Instructions on the religion , 23, which inform us on the catechumenate of the time in Jerusalem. Its Catéchèses was translated into French by Grandcolas, 1715.

Sources

External bonds

Patristique.org, of the texts of the Fathers of the Church

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