Suppositarum Cyrilli et Julii pontificis epistularum compend Cyril once wrote, not the one who wrote the letter to Constantine, but the one who succeeded him on his throne, to Julius the bishop of Rome, he wrote saying, that a great difficulty and deprivation occurs on the great and splendid feasts, because they are celebrated on one day, and the readings and the service remain incomplete for the two feasts, on account of being unable to fully celebrate the birth and the baptism of the Lord. Since indeed we cannot on one day go to the place of the baptism (since Bethlehem is three miles distant from Jerusalem to the south, and the Jordan is fifteen miles distant to the east), therefore let your Holiness command a search of all the writings of the Jews, which Caesar Titus, having plundered, brought from Jerusalem to Rome. Perhaps you might find with certainty the day of the birth of Christ our God. Then Julius of Rome diligently inquired about this request; and having gathered all the writings of the Jews, which had been captured and brought to Rome, he found a certain writing of Josephus the chronographer, written by him; that in the seventh month at the feast of Tabernacles, on the day of atonement, the angel of God appeared, and the priest, having been struck deaf, remained mute, until his wife Elizabeth gave birth in her old age [alt. reading: in old age]. And the patriarch of Jerusalem, Juvenal, wrote to the patriarch of Rome, Julius, concerning this, that I cannot on one day go to Bethlehem and to the Jordan. For Jor 33.1209 dan is twenty-five miles distant from the city of Jerusalem to the east; and holy Bethlehem, to the south of the city, is six miles; and I cannot celebrate the two feasts on one day. Therefore I entreat your Reverence, Father, that you search the records, or also give us through a careful search in your writing, honored one, the information concerning these things, on what day Christ the Lord was born, and on what day he was baptized. For as we learned accurately, that the original records from Jerusalem to of Sias. Having received this writing, Julius the patriarch of Rome, having searched the records, found, that on the twenty-fifth of December our Lord Jesus Christ was born, and thirty years after his birth he was baptized by John, in the river Jordan, on the of the month of January. According to this research, therefore, the Fathers having separated the feast, there was grumbling among the many, etc.

Suppositarum Cyrilli et Julii pontificis epistularum compend Ἔγραψέ ποτε Κύριλλος, ὁ γράψας τὴν ἐπιστολὴν Κωνσταντίνῳ, ἀλλ' ὁ μετ' ἐκεῖνον διαδεξάμενος τὸν θρόνον αὐτοῦ, πρὸς Ἰούλιον τῆς Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπον, ἔγραψε λέγων, ὅτι Μέγας τόπος καὶ στέρησις γίνεται εἰς τὰς μεγάλας καὶ λαμπρὰς ἑορτὰς, ὅτι τελοῦνται ἐν μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ, καὶ τὰ ἀναγνώσματα, καὶ ἡ ἀκολουθία ἀπομένουσιν ἡμιτελῆ τῶν δύο ἑορτῶν, διὰ τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι τὴν γέννησιν καὶ τὸ βάπτισμα ἐκτελέσαι τοῦ Κυρίου. Ὡς δὴ οὐ δυνάμεθα ἐν μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ ἀπαντῆσαι εἰς τόπον τοῦ βαπτίσματος (ἐπεὶ ἡ Βηθλεὲμ τρία μίλια ἀπέχει ἀπὸ Ἱερουσαλὴμ κατὰ νότον, καὶ ὁ Ἰορδάνης ιεʹ μίλια ἀπέχει κατὰ ἀνατολὰς), προσταξάτω οὖν ἡ ἁγιωσύνη σου ἐρευνῆσαι πάντα τὰ συγγράμματα τῶν Ἰουδαίων, ἅτινα σκυλεύσας ὁ Καῖσαρ Τίτος ἀπήγαγεν ἀπὸ Ἱερουσαλὴμ εἰς Ῥώμην. Ἴσως εὕροις βεβαίως τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς γεννήσεως τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν. Τότε Ἰούλιος ὁ Ῥώμης ἐπιμελῶς ἐζήτει περὶ τῆς αἰτήσεως ταύτης· καὶ συναγαγὼν πάντα τὰ γράμματα τῶν Ἰουδαίων, τὰ αἰχμαλωτισθέντα καὶ ἀχθέντα εἰς Ῥώμην, εὗρε σύγγραμμά τι Ἰωσήππου τοῦ χρονογράφου, συγγραφὲν παρ' αὐτοῦ· ὅτι ἐν μηνὶ τῷ ζʹ ἐν τῇ ἑορτῇ τῆς Σκηνοπηγείας, εἰς τὴν ἡμέραν τοῦ ἱλασμοῦ, ὤφθη ὁ ἄγγελος τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ κωφωθεὶς ὁ ἱερεὺς διέμεινεν ἄλαλος, ἕως οὗ ἔτεκεν ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ Ἐλισάβετ ἐν γήρῃ [λ. γήρει]. Ἔγραψε δὲ ὁ πατριάρχης Ἱεροσολύμων ὁ Ἰουβενάλιος τῷ πατριάρχῃ Ῥώμης Ἰουλίῳ περὶ τούτου, ὅτι Οὐ δύναμαι ἐν μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ ἀπαντῆσαι εἰς Βηθλεὲμ, καὶ εἰς τὸν Ἰορδάνην. Καὶ γὰρ Ἰορ 33.1209 δάνης ἀπέχει τῆς πόλεως Ἱερουσαλὴμ κατὰ ἀνατολὰς μίλια κεʹ· ἡ δὲ ἁγία Βηθλεὲμ, κατὰ νότον τῆς πόλεως, μίλια ἕξ· καὶ οὐ δύναμαι ἐν μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ τὰς δύο ἑορτὰς ἀποτελεῖν. Παρακαλῶ οὖν τὴν σὴν ὁσιότητα, Πάτερ, ἵνα ἐρευνήσῃς τὰ ὑπομνήματα, ἢ καὶ δώσῃς ἡμῖν ἐν ἀκριβεῖ ἐρεύνῃ διὰ γραφῆς σου, τίμιε, τὴν περὶ τούτων εἴδησιν, ἐν ποίᾳ ἡμέρᾳ ἐτέχθη Χριστὸς ὁ Κύριος, καὶ ἐν ποίᾳ ἡμέρᾳ ἐβαπτίσθη. Ὡς γὰρ ἀκριβῶς ἔγνωμεν, ὅτι τὰ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ὑπομνήματα ἐξ Ἱεροσολύμων εἰς σιανοῦ. Ταύτην τὴν γραφὴν δεξάμενος Ἰούλιος ὁ πατριάρχης Ῥώμης, ἐρευνήσας τὰ ὑπομνήματα, εὗρεν, ὅτι τῇ εἰκοστῇ πέμπτῃ τοῦ ∆εκεμβρίου ἐγεννήθη ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς, καὶ μετὰ τριάκοντα χρόνους τῆς αὐτοῦ γεννήσεως ἐβαπτίσθη ὑπὸ Ἰωάννου, ἐν τῷ Ἰορδάνῃ ποταμῷ, τῇ ʹ Ἰανουαρίου μηνός. Κατὰ τὴν ἔρευναν οὖν ταύτην χωρίσαντες οἱ Πατέρες τὴν ἑορτὴν, γογγυσμὸς ἦν ἐν τοῖς πολλοῖς, ετξ.