Misplaced Pages

Cyrus I of Edessa

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
4th century Christian bishop of Edessa

Cyrus I (died 396) was the bishop of Edessa. He succeeded Eulogius, who died on Good Friday 387 (year 698 of the Seleucid era).

According to the Chronicle of Edessa, on 22 August 394 (705) Cyrus moved the relics (bones) of Thomas the Apostle from a martyrium outside the city walls to a church in the southwest corner of the city.

Cyrus died on 22 July 396 (707). The story of Euphemia and the Goth is set during the pontificate of Cyrus.

References

  1. ^ Benjamin Harris Cowper, ed. (1865), "The Chronicle of Edessa", Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record, 5 (9), pp. 28–45, at 83.
  2. Susan Ashbrook Harvey (2005), "'Incense in Our Land': Julian Saba and Early Christianity", in R. S. Sugirtharajah (ed.), Wilderness: Essays in Honour of Frances Young, T&T Clark, pp. 120–134, at 124.
  3. F. C. Burkitt, ed. (1913), Euphemia and the Goth, with the Acts of Martyrdom of the Confessors of Edessa, Williams and Norgate, p. 58.
Categories:
Cyrus I of Edessa Add topic