George at Alexandria, and Cyril’s Successors at Jerusalem

During this period Athanasius was forced to stay in hiding. George returned to Alexandria and began a cruel persecution of the pagans and of the Christians who disagreed with him. He forced both groups to worship in the way he laid down, and where there was resistance he compelled obedience by force. The officials hated him because he treated them with contempt and gave orders to the officers; and the common people loathed him for his tyranny, for his power was greater than that of all the rest. The pagans hated him even more than the Christians did. He forbade them to offer sacrifices and to celebrate their ancestral festivals; and once he had brought the governor of Egypt and armed soldiers into the city and stripped their images, votive offerings and temple ornaments. This was in fact the cause of his death, which I will tell about at length. [a]

When Cyril was deposed, Erennius took over the church of Jerusalem. He was succeeded by Heraclius, and Heraclius by Hilarius. For we have learned from tradition that during that period these men governed the church there, until the reign of Theodosius, when Cyril was restored once more to his own see. [c]