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Containing Epistles, or Fragments of Epistles 9:1Dionysius of AlexandriaEpistle IX.-To Sixtus II.Five tomes against Nestorius · Introduction 13:4Cyril of AlexandriaThere was nothing then for S. Cyril to do in regard to them. They had fallen into the trap which Nestorius had laid for them by sending the Anathemas meant to test his own sincerity, without the Epistle which would have explained them. It became an axiom with Theodoret that they were heretical. S. Cyril then could but wait. S. Sixtus iii., a peace-loving Bishop who had succeeded S. Celestine, bears him witness that he had shewed at once how mindful he was of the faith and how regardless of contumelies, which he suffered gloriously, according to the Apostle, wishing that the Churches should be well-ordered, rather than that he should be righted himself; that one [Nestorius] having wrecked himself, he was anxious that all the rest should be saved out of the waves. 'The same mind is in us also; to act tenderly towards them, when they cease to be impious towards God. Let those then, who will to return to the right way, be received.' He addresses S. Cyril himself,The Bazaar of Heracleides · Book 2, part 2 6:22Nestorius80. Viz. Celestinus. Nestorius apparently ignores Sixtus III.The Bazaar of Heracleides · Introduction 5:131Nestorius432. January 27 Caelestine dies, and is succeeded by Sixtus III 375The Bazaar of Heracleides · Introduction 5:145NestoriusJohn announces his decision in a Circular Letter to Sixtus III of Rome, Maximian, and Cyril, and also sends two private letters to Cyril. Cyril replies with a letter (Ep. xxxix) afterwards given oecumenical authority at Chalcedon. The question of the XII Anathematisms is left unmentioned by both sides 291-2The Bazaar of Heracleides · Introduction 5:160Nestorius440. John of Antioch dies, and is succeeded by his nephew Domnus. Sixtus III of Rome dies, and is succeeded by Leo. The abbot Dalmatius dies, and is succeeded by Eutyches.Works · Introduction to vol. 2 3:3Pseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteDionysius of Alexandria, writing to Tope Sixtus II., c. 250, respecting the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite, affirms "that no one can intelligently dispute their paternity----that no one penetrated more profoundly than Dionysius into the mysterious depths of Holy Scripture----that Dionysius was disciple of St. Paul, and piously governed the Church ofAthens." If, then, the Bishops of Alexandria andRome exchanged letters only a few years after the death of Pantaenus, and only seven years after the death of Ammonius, and in those letters affirmed the writings to be undoubtedly written by Dionysius the Areopagite, it would be the height of absurdity to affirm that such writings were unknown to Pantaenus and Ammonius.Works · Introduction to vol. 2 3:23Pseudo-Dionysius the AreopagitePolycarp quotes Dionysius verbatim as "a certain one." Jerome quotes him as "quidam Graecorum." Dionysius of Alexandria (a.d. 250), writing to Sixtus II., declares that no one can intelligently doubt that the writings are those of Dionysius, the convert of St. Paul, Bishop of Athens. |xviii Tertullian, expresses the Agnosia "nihil scire omnia scire," Origen quotes him by name. Theodore (a.d. 420) answers objections,----whom Photius approved. Gregory calls Dionysius "an ancient andvenerable Father." The Second Council of Nicea quotes the very words, contained in the "Ecclesiastical Hierarchy," c. I. s. 4, as those of the great Dionysius. Bishop Pearson proves that the best judges in the sixth, fifth, fourth and third centuries regarded the writings as written: by Dionysius the Areopagite. German scholars to-day admit that the external testimony is in favour of their genuineness.Ecclesiastical History · Preface to the online edition 3:3Evagrius Scholasticus432 Sixtus IIIMarch 28:6The Roman MartyrologyAt Rome, [in the year 440,] the holy Confessor Pope Sixtus III.August 6:3The Roman MartyrologyAt Rome, in the cemetery of Callistus, upon the Appian Way, [in the year 258,] the blessed Pope and martyr Sixtus II, who received the crown of martyrdom by the sword in the persecution under Valerian. Likewise the holy martyrs Felicissimus and Agapitus, deacons of the aforesaid blessed Xystus, and his subdeacons Januarius, Magnus, Vincent, and Stephen, who were all beheaded along with him, and were buried in the cemetery of Pretextatus. Along with them suffered also the blessed Quartus, as is written by holy Cyprian.