Xystus

+ Xystus, which is placed first in the Maronite books;

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

St. Sixtus, or Xystus; there were two popes with the name of Xystus in the early Church, though that mentioned in the Canon of the Mass, various commentaries suggest, was St. Sixtus II who reigned as pope only from A.D. 257-258, at which time he was martyred under the persecutions of the Emperor Valerian.

Saints of the Roman Canon - Part 1: The Communicantes 2009

It seemed good to Trypho that we should do so; and accordingly, having agreed upon it, we retired to the middle space of the Xystus.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

[1948] This Xystus, on the authority of Euseb. (iv. 18), was at

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

While I was going about one morning in the walks of the Xystus, [1948] a certain man, with others in his company, having met me, and said,

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Xystus (or open gallery); then touching upon the Council-0house, it ended at the east walk of the Temple.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

And in the same chapter, describing the compass of the outmost wall, "It began on the north at the Hippic tower, and went on to the Xystus."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

For he saith, that "the outmost wall on the north began at the Hippic tower, and went forward to the Xystus; and thence, touching upon the council" (or the court), "it went onward opposite against the west walk of the Temple."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Agrippa calls the people of Jerusalem together into the Xystus, and sets his sister Berenice in their view, "upon the House of the Asmoneans, which was above the Xystus, in the farther part of the Upper City."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

The House of the Asmoneans, and the Xystus, or open gallery.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979