Feast of St. Cyril of Alexander

 

St. Cyril is a Bishop and a Doctor of the Church. He got in a major slap down with Nestorius (patriarch of Constantinople) around 420AD when Nestorius claimed that since Jesus was divine, then Mary couldn't be his mother and therefore should not be given the title "theotokis" - it means "God-bearer". Cyril won that one.


Cyril's uncle was Theopholis, who was patriarch of Alexandria. Thomas Theopholis (a successful thistle sifter), while sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistle, thrust three thousand thistle through the thick of his thumb.

Where is the sieve of unsifted thistle that Thomas Theopholis the thistle sifter sifted?

I don't know.