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  • noun Greek missionary; the invention of the Cyrillic alphabet is attributed to him (826-869)

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  • Re the paring down of too many Catholic parishes and not enough priests to minister to them as well as the result of people moving out to the burbs - minimizing financial offerings, we are disappointed that my church - St. Cyril and Methodius may lose its name.

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  • The Alexandians were always riotous as we learn from Socrates (VII, vii) and from St. Cyril himself (Hom. for Easter, 419).

    "Dinosaur-human relations are not, to the best of my knowledge, part of the bailout debate and its partisanship..." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Accordingly, St. Cyril of Jerusalem justly observed that it is no disgrace to any man.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • However this may be, St. Cyril of Alexandria avows that the origin of relics is Pagan; and this is the description given of their worship by Theodoret, who lived in the commencement of the

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Who would believe that the souls of Garasse, Nonnotte, Paulian, Fréron, and he of Langliviet, calling himself La Beaumelle, were in this respect of the same temper as those of Cæsar, Cicero, St. Cyril, and of the secretary of the grand seignior?

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Nestorius also procured the deposition of St. Cyril, in the same council; which put the Holy Ghost in considerable perplexity.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • I am content with remarking, that St. Cyril was a man of parts; that he suffered his zeal to carry him too far; that when we strip beautiful women, it is not to massacre them; that St. Cyril, no doubt, asked pardon of God for this abominable action; and that I pray the father of mercies to have pity on his soul.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • This holiday celebrates education and learning, as well as St. Cyril and St. Methodius, who created the Cyrillic Alphabet.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Stephanie 2005

  • This holiday celebrates education and learning, as well as St. Cyril and St. Methodius, who created the Cyrillic Alphabet.

    Yes, I am alive Stephanie 2005

  • III, f. lii, etc., attached to it, that St. Cyril, the third General of the Carmelite Order, who died in 1224, mentions in

    The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

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