![]() ![]() ![]() He exhorted catechumens to honor parents "for however much we may repay them, yet we can never be to them what they as parents have been to us." We know he also had a sister and a nephew, Gelasius, who became a bishop and a saint. All we know of his family were that his parents were probably Christians and he seemed to care for them a great deal. He speaks about the appearance of the sites of the Nativity and Holy Sepulchre before they were "improved" by human hands as if he were a witness. Historians estimate he was born about 315 and that he was brought up in Jerusalem. In between he was the victim of many of the power struggles that took place. These were prophetic words for Cyril was to be hounded by enemies and heretics for most of his life, and although they could exile him from his diocese he never left his beloved Church.Ĭyril's life began a few years before Arianism (the heresy that Jesus was not divine or one in being with the Father) and he lived to see its suppression and condemnation at the end of his life. "Make your fold with the sheep flee from the wolves: depart not from the Church," Cyril admonished catechumens surrounded by heresy. ![]()
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