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Bp. of
Three extracts from the Mystagogical Catecheses (IV.1, 2, 4) are given in the
Syr. Catholic Fenqitho (VI., 371–2. 273–4, 376–7) for
Corpus Christi.
Syriac translations of two letters are preserved: 1. on the vision of the
Cross, ed. with ET, J. F. Coakley, in
AB
102 (1984),
71–84; and 2. on the attempted rebuilding of the Temple in 363, ed. with ET,
S. P. Brock, in
BSOAS
40 (1977), 267–86 (repr. in Syriac Perspectives on Late Antiquity [1984], ch .X).
The second letter probably dates from after Cyril’s death (though Wainwright
considers it genuine); its list of towns affected by the earthquake of 363
has proved important for Palestinian archaeology of that period.
A series of short hymns for Good Friday are found in four medieval mss., two of which attribute them to Cyril of Jerusalem (ed. A. Baumstark, in
For the Anaphora of Cyril, see under Cyril of Alexandria.
His commemoration is given as either 17 or 18 March.