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1 1 | 1. St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria,
2 2 | 2. Our Predecessor St. Celestine I hailed him
3 2 | it with the learning of St. Leo the Great;4 and in
4 2 | Constantinople, treated St. Cyril's authority with
5 4 | But the leading part which St. Cyril played in these important
6 6 | Eastern rite not only count St. Cyril among the 'ecumenical
7 8 | peoples of the East have for St. Cyril is mingled with an
8 9 | necessary that all should take St. Cyril as their model in
9 11| of the Christian faith, St. Cyril's untiring energy
10 15| of the Council of Nicaea, St. Cyril, while himself firmly
11 20| we may see an example in St. Cyril's remarkable conduct.
12 24| twelve 'Chapters' which St. Cyril had drawn up at the
13 24| dignity.'26 In this way St. Cyril's charity bore in
14 30| wrote to Our Predecessor St. Celestine I in the following
15 31| action and the authority of St. Cyril. It was therefore
16 31| after the public reading of St. Celestine's letter in the
17 33| The same constant union of St. Cyril with the Apostolic
18 33| Although Our Predecessor St. Celestine approved and
19 33| instruction of the Roman See that St. Cyril began to take measures
20 34| 34. Meanwhile, after St. Celestine's holy death,
21 34| spread that his Successor St. Xystus III had objected
22 35| shows plainly enough that St. Cyril was in perfect accord
23 35| complete approval. Thus St. Celestine, after other
24 35| proofs of his confidence in St. Cyril and his gratitude
25 36| 36. And when St. Xystus III, his successor
26 38| be called Christians take St. Cyril as their model, and
27 43| East who, though they hold St. Cyril in great veneration,
28 44| Nestorius also, if they examine St. Cyril's writings with unprejudiced
29 45| this fifteenth centenary of St. Cyril, to implore the most
30 46| Apostolic Benediction. ~Given at St. Peter's, Rome, on the 9th
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