Cyrus I 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).[1]

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.[1][2]

Cyrus died on 22 July 396 (707).[1] The story of Euphemia and the Goth is set during the pontificate of Cyrus.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c 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.