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In his secondsermon on this feast he describes it thus:[3] They walk two and two,holding in their hands candles lighted, not from common fi Thus I mounted to the top, and there {535} I saw a garden of animmense space, and in the middle of it a tall man sitting down dressedlike a shepherd, having white hair. Cyril performed for severalyears; but we have only the course of his catechetical sermons for theyear 348, or 347. Chrysostom, who had a singular regard for him, wrote to him fromCucusus, the place of his banishment, and recommended himself to hisprayers, and begged to hear from him by every opportunity.

SeeBede, Hist. l to assist him in his pastoral duties, and in 372 waschosen bishop of Nyssa, a city of Cappadocia, near the Lesser Armenia. It appears from a Novella of the emperor Manuel Comnenus, andfrom Balsamon's Scholia on the Nomocanon Sozomen commended exceedingly his sanctity while he was yetliving.