text: Dear John Hobson, shame for criticising Card. Burke's hero Cyril of Alexandria. I would quote a notable bio. sketch:
  "Cyril had punished himself for several years as a desert monk, but as was often the case, the tribulations of the flesh served merely to deepen his fanaticism and fire his intolerance: imagine him as a kind of fundamentalist mullah"*.  Not at all akin to the apparent indulgences source of the Card.'s rigid fanaticism.
  Another: "Cyril was a heretic hunter, and Jew Hater. Around Easter 415, he roused a Christian mob to attack the local Jews, sacking their homes, and seizing their synagogues to purify them and turn them into churches. He drove the ancient community from the city"*.
  The Saint was also involved in the skinning with oyster shells and burning death of the lady Hypatia, after which "Cyril's career in the Catholic Church blossomed"*
  *Holland, "Misogyny The World's Oldest Prejudice", pp.95-6