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Cyprian of Carthage

c. 200–258 · Latin Church (North Africa: Carthage) · Carthage

Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus (c. 200–258), a wealthy rhetorician converted in middle life, became bishop of Carthage in 248 and guided the African church through the Decian persecution, the controversy over the lapsed and a devastating plague. Several of his treatises, among them On the Lapsed, On the Lord's Prayer and On the Mortality, were delivered or read to his congregation. He was beheaded under Valerian in 258.

8 sermons

  1. On the Unity of the Church
    Matthew 5:13
  2. On the Dress of Virgins
  3. On the Lapsed
  4. On the Lord's Prayer
  5. On the Mortality
  6. On Works and Alms
  7. On the Advantage of Patience
  8. On Jealousy and Envy
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