Festal Letters 1–12

The first twelve of Cyril's 29 annual Festal Letters — Paschal pastoral epistles sent by the Patriarch of Alexandria each year announcing the date of Pascha and treating one or more theological or pastoral themes for the season of the Great Fast. Written in the first decade of his episcopate (414-425), these letters reveal Cyril's exegetical method, his early Christology, and his pastoral voice before the Nestorian controversy.