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“Make your fold with the sheep; flee from the wolves: depart not from the Church,” Cyril admonished catechumens surrounded by heresy. 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.
Cyril’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. In between he was the victim of many of the power struggles that took place.
We know little about Cyril’s early life. Historians estimate he was born about 315 and that he was brought up in Jerusalem. 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. All we know of his family were that his parents were probably Christians and he seemed to care for them a great deal. 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.
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๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต ๐๐บ๐ณ๐ช๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ถ๐ด๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ด๐ข๐ญ๐ท๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ถ๐ด, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐บ.
