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4th century Christian bishop 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).
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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.
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[2]
Cyrus died on 22 July 396 (707).
[1] The story of
Euphemia and the Goth is set during the pontificate of Cyrus.
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References
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c Benjamin Harris Cowper, ed. (1865),
"The Chronicle of Edessa", Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record, 5 (9), pp. 28–45, at 83.
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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.
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^ F. C. Burkitt, ed. (1913),
Euphemia and the Goth, with the Acts of Martyrdom of the Confessors of Edessa, Williams and Norgate, p. 58.