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Saint Cyril of Jerusalem Born and raised in the depths of the Jerusalem Church; Around 346, he was ordained a presbyter and in this rank, 346–349, he spoke teachings to those preparing for baptism and to the newly baptized. In 350, after the death of Maximus, he became Bishop of Jerusalem. Pastoral life was difficult for Saint Cyril, because the Arians, Jews and Manichaeans disturbed the Church, but it was marked by extraordinary signs of God. In 351, on May 17, at about 9 a.m., the sign of the cross appeared in the sky, stretching from Golgotha ​​to Olivet; the radiance of the cross was so bright that the radiance of the sun was not stronger. The phenomenon continued for several hours in a row, in front of the amazed inhabitants and visitors of Jerusalem; many Jews and pagans turned to Christ. “Everyone saw,” Cyril wrote to Emperor Constantius, “that the pious Christian Faith does not consist in words beyond human wisdom.” – In 357, Ananias, Metropolitan of Caesarea, at his council deprived Cyril of his see for selling church items for the benefit of the poor during a famine, but in reality for disagreeing with the Arians. Cyril remained outside his see until 361, when Emperor Julian, for his own purposes, returned all the bishops from exile. This emperor allowed the Jews and ordered the mayor of Jerusalem to restore the Jewish Church. Saint Cyril pointed out to the blind the prophecies of Daniel (Dan.9:26–27) and the Savior (Matt.24:2); and as an instruction to the centuries, Providence destroyed the plan of pride both solemnly and horribly: fire from the foundations of the church threw stones and burned the leaders of vanity. The pagans trembled and turned to Christ; The Jews recognized the Son of Mary as God. – Valens imp. in 367 he again expelled Cyril for refusing to accept Arianism; and Theodosius returned it in 378. In 381, Cyril at the Second Ecumenical Council signed a condemnation of the Doukhobor heretics. Died in 386 - Explaining in one of his conversations that the grace of rebirth does not free us from the duty of struggling against sin, he says: “like Christ after baptism and the descent of the Holy Spirit on Him. fought with the enemy, so you too, after holy baptism and sacramental anointing, having put on the full armor of the Holy Spirit, stand against the devil and fight him.”