Resumen de Cyrillona: A Critical Study and Commentary by Carl Griffin (review)

Jeanne Nicole Mellon Saint Laurent

• Griffin notes the author’s affinity for the Gospel of John. In Chapter Three Griffin studies Cyrillona’s homiletic poem On the Washing of the Feet and shows how Cyrillona imagined the events of the Last Supper in the Upper Room. Like many Syriac authors, Cyrillona focuses upon the side of Christ pierced by the lance as the place from where many symbols flow: “the sweetness of divinity, the wine of consolation, the blood pressed in the cup, the living waters, the Ocean of Mercies” (173).