Cyril of Constantinople (d. c. 1235) was reputed to have been a

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of the

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and

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of the

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for three years. He is said to have had the gift of

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Cyril was born in Constantinople around 1126, and reputed to have become a priest and hermit on Mount Carmel.Staring, Adrian. "Cyril of Constantinople (XIII Cent.)", carmelnet.org
/ref> One of the pseudo-prophecies, given out towards the end of the thirteenth century by the

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, and attributed to

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, became known to Guido de Perpignan and other Carmelites at

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, who ascribed it to their former general, now considered a

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and a

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, his

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being introduced in 1399. Zimmerman, Benedict. "St. Cyril of Constantinople." The Catholic Encyclopedia
Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 16 April 2020 In the

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lessons he was also confused with

Cyril of Alexandria Cyril of Alexandria ( grc, Κύριλλος Ἀλεξανδρείας; cop, Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ Ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲩ ⲁ̅ also ⲡⲓ̀ⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲕⲓⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲥ; 376 – 444) was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444 ...

. When the mistake was discovered (1430, but the confusion was maintained in the Venice Breviary, 1542), his title of doctor was justified by attributing to him a work, of which no trace exists, on the procession of the

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. The so-called "Cyrillic prophecy" or angelic oracle ''Divinum oraculum S. Cyrillo Carmelitae Constantinopolitano solemni legatione angeli missum'', so called because it is supposed to have been brought by an

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while Cyril was saying

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, is a lengthy document of eleven chapters in incomprehensible language, with a commentary falsely ascribed to Abbot Joachim. It is first mentioned by

Arnold of Villanova Arnaldus de Villa Nova (also called Arnau de Vilanova in Catalan, his language, Arnaldus Villanovanus, Arnaud de Ville-Neuve or Arnaldo de Villanueva, c. 1240–1311) was a physician and a religious reformer. He was also thought to be an alchem ...

, c. 1295;

Telesphorus of Cosenza Telesphorus of Cosenza (or ''Theophorus'', ''Theolophorus'') was a name assumed by one of the pseudo-prophets during the time of the Western Schism. As an pseudonymous author of a Latin work ''Liber de magnis tribulationibus'', the name was attached ...

applied it to the

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and treated it as an utterance of the Holy Ghost. Another writing erroneously attributed to Cyril is ''De processu sui Ordinis'', by a contemporary, probably a French author; edited by Daniel a Virgine Mariâ in ''Speculum Carmelitarum''.

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