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St. Cyprian of Carthage
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St. Cyprian of Carthage

c. 210–258 · Carthage · Feast August 31

Cyprian was a rich lawyer of Carthage who was baptized in middle age and soon made bishop. He guided his church through the persecution of Decius and a terrible plague, organising care for the sick of all faiths. His treatise On the Unity of the Church became a classic. He was beheaded in 258, and gave the executioner twenty-five gold coins.

  • Feast: August 31 (New Calendar)
  • Lived: c. 210–258
  • Place: Carthage
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