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https://spear-prosop.org/3090-7
Date: Sometime between 0513 and 0518Event Factoid: Cyril of Alexandria faced a situation where two mothers did not know which of their two children had been baptized. To avoid the risk of re-baptism, he dipped both into the font and while saying that only the one who had not been baptized was being baptized.

Sources:

  • Ernest Walter Brooks,The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, in the Syriac Version of Athanasius of Nisibis. Translation, Part II: Letters III.1-XI.1, vol. 2.2 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1904), p: 421, part: IX.2.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to cite:

Daniel L. Schwartz, https://spear-prosop.org/3090-7, in The Letters of Severus of Antioch: A SPEAR Prosopography, edited by Daniel L. Schwartz, general editor Daniel L. Schwartz, 2025-07-01.

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