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Cyril of Constantinople

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Saint

Cyril of Constantinople

OCarm
BornConstantinople
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
AttributesCarmelite habit

Cyril of Constantinople (d. c. 1235) was reputed to have been a Prior General of the Order of Carmelites and prior of the hermits on Mount Carmel for three years. He is said to have had the gift of prophecy.

Life

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Cyril was born in Constantinople around 1126,[1] and reputed to have become a priest and hermit on Mount Carmel.[2] One of the pseudo-prophecies, given out towards the end of the thirteenth century by the Franciscan Spirituals, and attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem, became known to Guido de Perpignan and other Carmelites at Paris, who ascribed it to their former general, now considered a saint and a Doctor of the Church, his feast day being introduced in 1399.[3]

In the breviary lessons he was also confused with Cyril of Alexandria. When the mistake was discovered (1430, but the confusion was maintained in the Venice Breviary, 1542), his title of a Doctor of the Church was justified by attributing to him a work, of which no trace exists, on the procession of the Holy Spirit. The so-called "Cyrillic prophecy" or angelic oracle Divinum oraculum S. Cyrillo Carmelitae Constantinopolitano solemni legatione angeli missum, so called because it is supposed to have been brought by an angel while Cyril was saying Mass, is a lengthy document of eleven chapters in incomprehensible language, with a commentary falsely ascribed to Abbot Joachim. It is first mentioned by Arnold of Villanova, c. 1295; Telesphorus of Cosenza applied it to the Western Schism and treated it as an utterance of the Holy Ghost.[3]

Another writing erroneously attributed to Cyril is De processu sui Ordinis, by a contemporary, probably a French author; edited by Daniel a Virgine Mariâ in Speculum Carmelitarum.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ Saint Cyril of Constantinople in New Catholic Dictionary CatholicSaints.Info. 16 September 2012
  2. ^ "Staring, Adrian. "Cyril of Constantinople (XIII Cent.)", carmelnet.org" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  3. ^ a b c Zimmerman, Benedict. St. Cyril of Constantinople in The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 16 April 2020Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "St. Cyril of Constantinople". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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Preceded by Prior General of the Order of Carmelites
1232–1237 		Succeeded by
Berthold
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