CRISIPPUS OF JERUSALEM. – A priest of Jerusalem of the 5th century, a distinguished writer and orator, born before 409, died in 479. Originally from Cappadocia, Chrysippus went to Palestine with his two elder brothers, Cosmas and Gabriel, between the years 425 and 430, and with them embraced the monastic life in the monastery of St Euthymius. At first steward of the laura, he was ordained priest about 455 and succeeded his brother Cosmas in the office of starophyllax (i.e., guardian of the Holy Cross in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Anastasis, in Jerusalem), when the latter became metropolitan of Scythopolis. He held this office until his death.
According to Cyril of Scythopolis, *Life of St Euthymius*, ed. J. B. Cotelier, *Monumenta Graeca*, IV, 30, 42, 45, 67, 76, he composed numerous writings, which are now reduced to four homilies or panegyrics: 1) *Encomium of St Mary, Mother of God*, composed for the primitive Marian feast, the Sunday before Christmas, published with a Latin translation in the *Auctarium* of Fronton-le-Duc, vol. II, Paris 1624, pp. 424–30, republished with corrections by M. Jugie in *Patrologia orientalis* of R. Graffin, XIX, Paris 1925, pp. 336–43; 2) *Panegyric of St Theodore the Tyro*, ed. A. Sigalas, in *Byzantinisches Archiv*, VII, Leipzig 1921; 3) *Panegyric of the Archangel Michael*, ed. A. Sigalas, in *Βυζαντινὸς Σπoυδάς*, 3 (Athens 1926), pp. 85–93; 4) *Panegyric of St John the Baptist*, ed. A. Sigalas, in *Byzantinisch-neugriechische Jahrbücher*, Berlin and Athens 1937.
Combeffa had already published a Latin translation of this work in his *Bibliotheca Patrum concionatoria*, VII, Paris 1662, pp. 803–808.