(ABOUT A.D. 449.)
[Roman Martyrology. Same day in the Greek Church.]
S. Isidore of Pelusium, in Egypt, was a monk from his youth. Suidas
asserts that he was promoted to the dignity of the priesthood. In the
time when the turbulent Theophilus was patriarch of Alexandria,
Isidore espoused the cause of S. Chrysostom, praised his writings and
doctrine, and consequently became an object of hostility to the proud
patriarch. On the death of Theophilus, S. Cyril, his nephew, succeeded
him, and, as has already been related in the life of that saint,
inherited his uncle's prejudices against the great Chrysostom, and
after his death opposed the insertion of his name in the diptychs, or
list of persons who were commemorated at the Holy Eucharist. But by
the influence of S. Isidore, who earnestly strove to bring councils of
peace before Cyril, the patriarch of Alexandria was induced to
withdraw his objections. The letters of S. Isidore are extant.