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- n. Greek missionary; the invention of the Cyrillic alphabet is attributed to him (826-869)
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“No German dialect ever attained to the privileges of the sanctuary which St. Cyril won for the Old Slavic from Pope Nicholas I.”
“St. Cyril was in the right, and became his most uncompromising ally against Nestorianism.”
“Finally, not to mention the later testimony of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Epiphanius, St. Jerome, St. Chrysostom, and Theodoret, the well-known text of St. Clement of Rome, the witness of the "Muratorian Canon", and of the "Acta Pauli" render probable Paul's journey to Spain.”
“From that time onward they are very common. in the Council of Ephesus, 431, as St. Vincent points out, St. Cyril presented a series of quotations from the Fathers, tôn hagiôtatôn kai hosiôtatôn paterôn kai episkopôn diaphorôn marturôn, which were read on the motion of Flavian, Bishop of Philippi.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“Council of Ephesus between St. Cyril and John of Antioch, he believed there was too much obstinacy on St. Cyril's side.”
“Three passages from "On the Godhead", apparently written against Origen's subordinationist views, were quoted by St. Cyril at the Council of”
“The true reason for the adequacy and even superabundance of Redemption is given by St. Cyril of Alexandria:”
“The fourth century opens with (1) the apologetic and the historical works of Eusebius of Caesarea, with whom we may class St. Cyril of Jerusalem and St. Epiphanius, (2) the Alexandrian writers”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“Even at the Council of Ephesus (431) both parties, St. Cyril and the Antiochians, already invoked him on behalf of their opinions, and at the Seventh Ecumenical Council, when a passage of”
“The most ancient Western canons relate to the admission or exclusion from public penance; for instance, the decision of Callixtus (Tertullian, "De pudic.", i) to admit adulterers, that of St. Cyril and the Council of Carthage in 251 (Ep. 56) to admit the lapsi or apostates, although the Council of Elvira”
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