Therefore the Dead is risen, He who was “free among the dead,” and deliverer of the dead. He patiently endured the shame of the crown of thorns; He has risen to crown Himself with the diadem of victory over death.

—Catechetical Lectures, 14.1

Full citation: McCauley, Leo P., trans. 1970. The Works of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem. Vol. 2. The Fathers of the Church. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. Page 32.