Saint Cyril

Noun

Meaning

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

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Examples

A year or two before his own death in 869, Saint Cyril brought to Rome what he believed to be the relics of Saint Clement, bones he found in the Crimea buried with an anchor on dry land. Source: Internet

Cyril sent a letter to Nestorius known as "The Third Epistle of Saint Cyril to Nestorius." Source: Internet

The Roman Catholic Church did not commemorate Saint Cyril in the Tridentine Calendar : it added his feast only in 1882, assigning to it the date of 9 February. Source: Internet

The 41 letters known today include letters for non-Greek sounds, which may have been added by Saint Cyril, as well as ligatures added in the 12th century under the influence of Cyrillic, as Glagolitic lost its dominance. Source: Internet

The works of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem. 2 vols. Source: Internet

This epistle drew heavily on the established Patristic Constitutions and contained the most famous article of Alexandrian Orthodoxy: "The Twelve Anathemas of Saint Cyril." Source: Internet

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