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Catechetical Lectures
Provides doctrinal instruction and sacramental mystagogy for catechumens preparing for baptism and Eucharistic life.
Cyril of Jerusalemc. AD 348-3504th century
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Metadata
Overview
- Category
- Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
- Genre
- Catechesis
- Tradition
- Eastern
- Region
- Jerusalem
- Original language
- Greek
- Date certainty
- Range
Historical context
Manuscript context
This text is represented here through direct Greek witness material associated with Cyril of Jerusalem and its circulation in Jerusalem.
Themes
Controversies
- Arian controversy
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Primary translation
www.newadvent.org · Source quality: Primary · Last checked: 2026-03-01
Archive mirror
web.archive.org · Source quality: Archive · Last checked: 2026-03-01
Original language witnesses
Witness status: Direct witness
Extracted OCR witness from Patrologia Graeca volume 33, covering the Catechetical Lectures corpus section.
Open normalized witness textPatrologia Graeca vol. 33 (Catechetical Lectures section)
License: Public Domain Mark 1.0
Patrologia Graeca OCR corpus (Cyril of Jerusalem, Catecheses ad illuminandos)
License: No license declared (source text is historical/public-domain material)