CHRYSIPPUS OF JERUSALEM. - 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, Cosmas and Gabriel, between the years 425 and 430, and together with them embraced the monastic life in the convent of St. Euthymius. At first steward of the laura, ordained priest around 455, he succeeded his brother Cosmas 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 Scythopolis. He held this office until his death.
According to Cyril of Scythopolis, Life of Saint Euthymius, 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) Praise of Saint Mary, Mother of God, 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) Panegyric of St. Theodore Tiro, ed. A. Sigalas, in the Byzantinisches Archiv, VII, Leipzig 1921; 3) Panegyric of the archangel Michael, ed. A. Sigalas, in Βυζαντινό Σπουδά, 3 (Athens 1926), pp. 85-93; 4) Panegyric of St. John the Forerunner, 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.