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Cyril, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/cy/Cyril-St.html

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d. A.D. 444, patriarch of Alexandria (412–44), doctor of the church, known for his animosity toward heretics and heathens. He drove the Jews from Alexandria, and under his rule Hypatia was killed. The great episode in his career was his struggle against Nestorianism, which culminated in the Council of Ephesus in 431.

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Biography: Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, theologian (27 Jun 444) - English
URL: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/06/27.html

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Cyril began his career as Bishop of Alexandria by showing himself to be an ill-tempered, quarrelsome, hasty, and violent man. He shut the churches of the Novatianists, he drove out the Jews, he quarrelled with the imperial prefect Orestes, and with Orestes' friend Hypatia, a distinguished neo-Platonist scholar. (Hypatia was murdered by a mob.

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Patron Saints Index: Saint Cyril of Alexandria - English
URL: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintc15.htm

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Profile Monk. Priest. Bishop and Patriach of Alexandria. Worked at the Council of Ephesus. Fought against Nestorius who taught the heresy that there were two persons in Christ. Catechetical writer. Greek Father of the Church. Doctor of the Church.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Cyril of Alexandria - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04592b.htm

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Doctor of the Church. St. Cyril has his feast in the Western Church on the 28th of January; in the Greek Menaea it is found on the 9th of June, and (together with St. Athanasius) on the 18th of January.

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Saint Cyril I - English
URL: http://pharos.bu.edu/cn/synexarion/CyrilPillarOfFaith.txt

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The Pillar of the Faith (A.D. 444). In the year 412, after the departure of Abba Theophilus, his nephew, Abba Cyril the First, the 24th Pope of the See of Saint Mark, succeeded him. He received various descriptive titles of honor such as ``the Daring Lion,'' ``the Burnished Lamp,'' ``the Second Athanasius,'' and more specifically ``the Pillar of the Faith.''

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