Do RCs Know about

the Murder of Hypatia of Alexandria

[in 415 AD]

by [Misogynistic] Nitrian monks?

Hypathia: Murdered by monks with shells and shards

Hypatia of Alexandria was a Greek scholar from Alexandria in Egypt, considered the first notable woman in mathematics, who also taught philosophy and astronomy. Believed to have been the reason for the strained relationship between the Imperial Prefect Orestes and the Bishop Cyril, Hypatia attracted the ire of a Christian population eager to see the two reconciled. One day in March 415, during the season of Lent, her chariot was waylaid on her route home by a Christian mob, of Nitrian monks led by a man identified only as Peter, who is thought to be Peter the Reader, Cyrils assistant. The Christian monks stripped her naked and dragged her through the streets to the newly Christianised Caesareum church, where she was brutally killed. Some reports suggest she was flayed with sea shells and potshards and set ablaze while still alive.

References: http://books.google.com/books?id=rrZbAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA21&lpg=RA1PA21&dq=Nitrian+Monks&source=bl&ots=SWxBito30K&sig=CArCkUmMFhdB2ODZmj1A6EMQ58&hl=en&sa=X&ei=eYvhUr7SAuH4yAHF9YGQBg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=Nitrian %20Monks&f=false