CRISIPPO di GERUSALEMME. — Priest of Jerusalem of the 5th century, distinguished writer and orator, b. before 409, d. in 479. A native of Cappadocia, C. went to Palestine with his two elder brothers, Cosma and Gabriele, between the years 425 and 430 and, together with them, embraced the monastic life in the monastery of S. Eutimio. At first steward of the laura, ordained a priest around 455, he succeeded his brother Cosma in the office of staurophylax (that is, guardian of the holy Cross in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Anastasis, of Jerusalem), when the latter became metropolitan of Scitopoli. He held this office until his death.
According to Cirillo di Scitopoli, Vita di Sant'Eutimio, ed. J. B. Cotelier, Monumenta Graeca, IV, 30, 42, 45, 67, 76, he composed numerous writings, which at present are reduced to 4 homilies or panegyrics: 1) Elogio di Santa Maria, Madre di Dio, composed for the primitive Marian feast, the Sunday before Christmas, published with a Latin translation in the Anctorium of Fronton-le-Duc, vol. II, Paris 1624, pp. 424–30, republished with corrections by M. Jugie, Patrologia orientalis of R. Graffin, XIX, Paris 1925, pp. 336–43; 2) Panegirico di s. Teodoro Tiron, ed. A. Sigalas, in the Byzantinisches Archiv, VII, Lipaia 1921; 3) Panegirico dell'arcangelo Michele, ed. A. Sigalas, in Βυζαντινό Σπουδά, 3 (Athens 1926), pp. 85–93; 4) Panegirico di s. Giovanni il Precursore, ed. A. Sigalas, in the Byzantinisch-neugriechische Jahrbücher, Berlin and Athens 1937.
Combefa had already published a Latin translation of this work in his Bibliotheca Patrum concionatoria, VII, Paris 1662, pp. 803–808.