"Come back, brother Cyril, along with your mother the Church, of which you were not separated from a pit, but you turned away for a period determined by the consideration they deserve your faults. "
do not know what type of faults were those But the fact is that led to a temporary suspension of the functions of Cyril as bishop (lit. próedros , "Guide"). Although some scholars argue that it is not Cyril of Alexandria, other researchers, according to Wolfgang Meyer [1] hold not only this letter is addressed to the future archbishop of Alexandria, but the tone of reproach that Synesius Cyril targets would to do, eventually, with the murder of Hypatia, friend and teacher Sinesio. If so, the murder of Hypatia could be interpreted as a settling of accounts with Sinesio Cyril. Of course, it would be intolerable cruelty, if we consider that it would be a post mortem revenge because he was already dead Sinesio two or three years before these bloody events. But would not be surprising in a character who, not content to excommunicate Nestorius at the Council of Ephesus, he insisted that the addition to the canons of the council a list of up to twelve Anathematics (type: "If anyone does not confess ... such and such ... let him be accursed. ") With a vengeful rage bit line with the supposed virtues of a future saint of the Church ...
[1] WA MEYER, Hypatia von Alexandria. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Neuplatonismus , Heidelberg, 1886
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