{"id":24751,"date":"2009-06-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/saint-cyril-of-alexandria\/"},"modified":"2009-06-27T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T11:00:00","slug":"saint-cyril-of-alexandria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/saint-cyril-of-alexandria\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Cyril of Alexandria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Cyril%20of%20Alexandria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Cyril of Alexandria.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St Cyril of Alexandria-thumb-250x378.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"378\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><i>O God, Who did make blessed Cyril, Thy Confessor and<br \/>\nBishop, the invincible champion of the divine motherhood of he most Blessed<br \/>\nVirgin Mary; grant through his intercession, that we who believe her to be<br \/>\ntruly the Mother of God, may be saved through her maternal intercession.<\/i><\/span><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Saint Cyril&#8217;s (of the 5th cent.) importance for us even today deals with matter of Christology: Who is Jesus Christ and why is He important? &nbsp;As patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, he was known as a competent theologian and orator. At the Council of Ephesus he defended the humanity and divinity as a unity of Jesus Christ against those who taught otherwise. What today&#8217;s opening prayer emphasizes more is Cyril&#8217;s defense of Mary being the mother of Word made flesh, contradicting the infamous heretic Nestorius.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Two essential facts of orthodox Christian faith taught by Saint Cyril: that Jesus was begotten by God the Father before all ages; and that Jesus was also begotten in the flesh of the Virgin Mary.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, Who did make blessed Cyril, Thy Confessor and Bishop, the invincible champion of the divine motherhood of he most Blessed Virgin Mary; grant through his intercession, that we who believe her to be truly the Mother of God, may be saved through her maternal intercession. Saint Cyril&#8217;s (of the 5th cent.) importance for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/saint-cyril-of-alexandria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Cyril of Alexandria<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}