St Cyril of Jerusalem

Feastday 18th March

born 315AD

Died 386 AD

St Cyril was Bishop of Jerusalem and Doctor of the Church. Little is known of his life. In 357 Acacius caused Cyril to be exiled on the charge of selling Church furniture during a famine (Cyril and Acacius had had words before). Cyril took refuge with Silvanus Bishop of Taraus.

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And after these shall arise antichrist and having by the signs and lying wonders of his magical deceit, beguiled the Jews as though he were the expected Christ, he shall afterwards characterize himself by all kinds of excesses of cruelty and lawlessness…and he shall perpetrate such things for 3 years and 6 months

"Antichrist will exceed in malice, perversity, lust, wickedness, impiety, and ruthlessness and barbarity all men that have ever disgraced human nature. Hence St. Paul emphatically calls him `the man of sin the son of perdition, the wicked one, whose birth and coming is through the operation of Satan, in all manner of seduction and iniquity.' (2 Thess., 2). Through his great power, deceit and malice he shall succeed in decoying or forcing to his worship two thirds of mankind; the remaining third part of men will continue true to the faith and worship of Jesus Christ most steadfastly. But in his satanic rage and fury, Antichrist will persecute these brave and devout Christians during three years and a half, and torture them with such an extremity of barbarity, with all the old and newly invented instruments of pain, as to exceed all past persecutors of the Church combined. He will oblige all his followers to bear impressed upon their foreheads or right hands the mark of the Beast and will starve to death all those who refuse to receive it."

This one shall sieze the power of the Roman Empire and shall falsely style himself Christ. By the name Christ he shall decieve the Jews who are expecting the annointed and he shall seduce the Gentiles by his magickal illusions.