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'''Hypatia of Alexandria''' was a philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer living in the city of Alexandria from 370 A.D to 415 A.D.  She is credited with the invention of the astrolabe and the hydrometer, as well as with having written several treatises on conic sections and the works of the geometer and astronomer Ptolemy.

'''Hypatia of Alexandria''' was a philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer living in the city of Alexandria from 370 A.D to 415 A.D.  She is credited with the invention of the astrolabe and the hydrometer, as well as with having written several treatises on conic sections and the works of the geometer and astronomer Ptolemy.

During this time in the history of [[Alexandria]], the good and godly forces of the Church had entered the city in order to wrest control of it from the decadent, depraved and heretical intellectuals and Hellenistic pagans who had built a great library and museum there in order to venerate worldly knowledge above God.  This idolatry of reason, art, and literature had to be expunged by any means.

During this time in the history of [[Alexandria]], the forces of the Church had entered the city under the command of the Emperor [[Theodosius I]] to destroy all non-christian worship. It was one of these mobs that set upon Hypatia of Alexandria at the behest of Cyril of Alexandria.  They stripped the her of her clothing and bludgeoned her with clay pots, and then dragged her through the streets to one of the temples, where they used the shards of the broken pottery to flay her alive.  A fire was built and her twitching dismembered limbs were thrown in..

 

At this time, tensions were also growing between [[Orestes]], the pagan king of Alexandria, and the representatives of the Holy Church, namely [[Cyril of Alexandria]], [[Theophilus]] the patriarch of Alexandria, and Emperor [[Theodosius I]].  The God-fearing [[Theodosius I]] had issued an edict declaring pagan worship illegal, and legions of Christians went out into the world to destroy any places of pagan worship.  Since libraries and museums are often stores of printed works that are ''not'' the Bible or even works recapitulating the divine wisdom of the Bible, they had to be razed to the ground.

 

It was in the spirit of this edict that Theophilus ordered many of the stores of knowledge in Alexandria destroyed, and many historians agree that he was also responsible for the famed burning of the great [[Library of Alexandria]].  This instilled a tremendous sense of fear in the cowardly and seditious philosophers and astronomers of the city and, fearing for their lives, many of them left.  Sensing that the presence of God was upon that bastion of blasphemy, the pious Cyril of Alexandria began to incite mobs to, in accordance with [[Deuteronomy]] 17:2-17:5, stone the heretics who would draw worship away from God in order to idolize literature and mathematics.

 

It was one of these mobs that set upon Hypatia of Alexandria at the behest of the noble and pure Cyril of Alexandria.  They stripped the witch of her clothing and bludgeoned her with clay pots, and then dragged her through the streets to one of the temples, where they used the shards of the broken pottery to flay her alive.  A fire was built to purify her heretical flesh, and her twitching dismembered limbs were thrown in to create a pleasing scent unto the Lord.

[[John of Nikiu]] related later that "all the people surrounded the patriarch Cyril and named him 'the new Theophilus'; for he had destroyed the last remains of idolatry in the city".  It was for this act of purification that Cyril of Alexandria was later appointed to the position of [[Doctor of the Church]] and [[canonized]] as St. Cyril of Alexandria.

[[John of Nikiu]] related later that "all the people surrounded the patriarch Cyril and named him 'the new Theophilus'; for he had destroyed the last remains of idolatry in the city".  It was for this act of purification that Cyril of Alexandria was later appointed to the position of [[Doctor of the Church]] and [[canonized]] as St. Cyril of Alexandria.

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